{"id":6693,"date":"2012-02-26T15:51:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T15:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=6693"},"modified":"2012-02-27T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T12:10:51","slug":"triple-cable-break-hurts-international-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/6693\/triple-cable-break-hurts-international-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Triple cable break hurts international connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EASSy\u2019s problems are continuing with three cable breaks affecting connectivity to the cable system\u2019s clients.<\/p>\n<p>Industry feedback confirms that cable breaks occurred on the East Africa Submarine System (EASSy), SEA-ME-WE 3 (SMW3) and the Europe India Gateway (EIG). These cable breaks all occurred in the Gulf of Aden on 17th February 2012.<\/p>\n<p>According to a well placed industry source the breaks may have been caused by a cargo ship that dragged its anchor over the area where all these cables lie on the seabed.<\/p>\n<p>The repair operation is already under way, and further details about the cable breaks are expected to become available during this process.<\/p>\n<p>This triple cable break is affecting over 100 telecoms operators in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe that rely on these cable systems for international connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>The impact on South African telecoms operators is however limited by the redundancy in place from alternative cable systems SEACOM, SAT-3 and SAFE.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"EASSy downtime continues\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/43879-eassy-downtime-continues.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>EASSy downtime continues<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EASSy&#8217;s problems are continuing with three cable breaks affecting connectivity to the cable system\u2019s clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1194,26,39,1628],"class_list":["post-6693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-eassy","tag-headline","tag-seacom","tag-smw3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6693"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6767,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693\/revisions\/6767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}