{"id":78827,"date":"2013-05-28T12:02:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T10:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=78827"},"modified":"2013-05-28T12:22:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T10:22:28","slug":"wacs-cable-downtime-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/78827-wacs-cable-downtime-concerns.html","title":{"rendered":"WACS cable downtime concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

The West African Cable System (WACS<\/a>) has informed its clients that there may be downtime in early June 2013 to repair a fault, forcing some ISPs to look for alternative bandwidth during the projected repair period.<\/p>\n

WACS told its clients that there is a suspected fault on one of the cable segments, and that the cable ship has been dispatched to the affected area.<\/p>\n

The ship is expected to reach the fault area on 4 June 2013, and the tentative date of repair is estimated to be 8 June 2013.<\/p>\n

WACS warned that traffic on the system is expected to be down during the repair period.<\/p>\n

It is understood that it is currently only a suspected fault, and that it is not certain that there will be any downtime on the system.<\/p>\n

MWEB<\/a> ISP CEO Derek Hershaw<\/a> said that they are aware of the issue, but are still awaiting final confirmation of the exact date of the repairs.<\/p>\n

Hershaw added that he does not expect the WACS issue to have a significant impact on them because of their high redundancy, which includes significant capacity on Seacom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More submarine cable news<\/h3>\n

100Gbps IS-WACS dual-route cable system completed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

WACS launched in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Investors eye BRICS undersea broadband cable<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

SEACOM grows South African network<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some South African ADSL service providers are looking for alternative bandwidth after a WACS warning of potential downtime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":78829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,319],"class_list":["post-78827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-headline","tag-wacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78839,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78827\/revisions\/78839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}