{"id":34246,"date":"2013-03-25T09:22:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T07:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=34246"},"modified":"2013-03-25T09:24:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T07:24:45","slug":"isps-hit-by-seacom-eassy-cable-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/34246\/isps-hit-by-seacom-eassy-cable-break\/","title":{"rendered":"ISPs hit by Seacom, Eassy cable break"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multiple submarine cable systems across Africa, the Middle East and Asia are affected by cable breaks which are believed to have been caused by a large vessel dragging its anchor across the sea bed.<\/p>\n

Two cable systems serving South Africa \u2013 Seacom and Eassy \u2013 have been affected by the cable breaks in the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n

Seacom CEO Mark Simpson said on Saturday that the company continues to work to restore transmission and getting restoration services turned on.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, this process is proving much more complex and taking longer than we were initially told by our suppliers and would have expected,\u201d Simpson said.<\/p>\n

\"Afrihost\"<\/a>

Afrihost<\/p><\/div>\n

Local ADSL providers give feedback<\/h3>\n

Many South African ADSL service providers use Seacom and Eassy for international connectivity, and many local broadband users continue to complain about slow international throughput.<\/p>\n

Most service providers have already re-routed traffic to alleviate the effects of the cable breaks, but capacity limitations may influence the performance of some subscribers.
\nAfrihost<\/p>\n

Afrihost director Greg Payne said that the Seacom issues are not affecting Afrihost\u2019s network at all as they only use Seacom as a backup.<\/p>\n

However, Afrihost uses the Eassy cable which forced the ISP to re-route traffic over WACS while the circuit is down.<\/p>\n

Afrihost CEO Gian Visser added that there has been a phenomenal take up of the monthly \u2018free GB offer\u2019 over the last few days. \u201cPeople seem to be using it as a backup measure if their ISP has problems,\u201d said Visser.<\/p>\n

\"Derek<\/a>

Derek Hershaw<\/p><\/div>\n

MWEB ISP Derek Hershaw said that the ISP has capacity on the WACS cable, but with Seacom completely down, this only covers about 45% of the total requirement.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo most services are degraded to some extent and the particularly heavy protocols like P2P are not available at all,\u201d said Hershaw.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in discussions with various operators to get full restoration bandwidth until the Seacom cable can be repaired. Hopefully we\u2019ll have this in place shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cybersmart, which has significant capacity on Seacom to serve its ADSL needs, said that the problems will result in degraded international browsing for ADSL subscribers.<\/p>\n

Internet Solutions, which provides ADSL services to ISPs like Web Africa and Openweb, did not provide feedback by the time of publication.<\/p>\n

More Seacom articles<\/h3>\n

Seacom apologizes for downtime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

ADSL speeds hit by SEACOM downtime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Seacom upgrades network<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Seacom boosts reliability with second Egypt route<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seacom and Eassy are experiencing problems on their cable systems, and ADSL service providers in South Africa are forced to re-route traffic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1944,435,1194,38,39],"class_list":["post-34246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-afrihost","tag-cybersmart","tag-eassy","tag-mweb","tag-seacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34248,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34246\/revisions\/34248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}