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SEACOM downtime update from MWEB
2011-10-12
The SEACOM undersea wire, which can provide an information link between S. A. , Europe and India, experienced down time beginning on Sat. eight October 2011, due to an issue on a wire between Abu Talat and Marseilles. This outage will probably only be totally resolved sometime in the week beginning seventeen October 2011. In the meantime , local Net Service Suppliers ( ISPs ) who use bandwidth on the SEACOM wire have been dashing to implement contingency plans to keep their clients connected. MWEB operations has issued an update about the SEACOM down time to its patrons. "Some more bandwidth was brought online yesterday evening [10 October 2011] bringing us up to 83% of our needed capacity. We permitted P2P traffic to run from midnight to 7am, after which it had to give way for urgent traffic again." "We are working on having the leftover capacity revived during the day, after which all traffic concerns will return to normal," asserted MWEB Operations. SEACOM has often issued a statement on the present issue with the wire : "Initial guesses suggest that the total mend time will be around 12 days dependent on climate conditions. This comprises gaining the obligatory allows and the particular fix time. A fix vessel has been informed of the call-out and mobilization will happen right away once allows are received," SEACOM announced in an official statement. "The outage at first influenced all SEACOM traffic to Europe, however SEACOM was ready to revive some services by Sat. afternoon [8 October 2011]." "Further restoration has continued across the weekend in cooperation with patrons and partners and SEACOM may continue to actively work on securing further capacity for all required services over the following day or two.".
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