{"id":1134,"date":"2011-03-17T00:25:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T22:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.uct.ac.za\/blog\/big-bytes\/2011\/03\/17\/failure-on-the-seacom-cable."},"modified":"2015-08-14T14:07:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T12:07:54","slug":"failure-on-the-seacom-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2011\/03\/17\/failure-on-the-seacom-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure on the SEACOM Cable."},"content":{"rendered":"This just in from TENET:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Update:\r\n<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">The SEACOM Network Operations Centre (NOC) have confirmed that the\r\ninternational outage is being caused by a terrestrial fibre break in\r\nEgypt.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Due to security conditions the technician dispatched to repair the\r\nfibre breaks in Egypt will only arrive at the site of the break at\r\napproximately 4am GMT (6am South African time). It should then take\r\nbetween an hour to two hours to perform the fibre repair. <\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">We are therefore looking at an estimated time of repair of somewhere\r\nbetween 7am and 8am providing there are no unforeseen complications.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\r\n\r\nHi All,\r\n\r\nWe are currently experiencing a failure on the SEACOM Cable.\r\n\r\nHaving spoken to SEACOM's NOC, they say there is currently a problem of unknown cause between Mumbai and Marseille.\u00a0 At current there is unfortunately no further information, and as a result there are no estimated restoration times as of yet.\r\n\r\nWe will be tracking this through the night and as soon as we have more information will send out further updates.\r\n\r\nThanks\r\n\r\nAndrew Alston\r\nTENET - Chief Technology Officer","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in from TENET:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" size=\"2\">\n<p>&nbsp;<span>Update: <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The SEACOM Network Operations Centre (NOC) have confirmed that the<br \/>\ninternational outage is being caused by a terrestrial fibre break in<br \/>\nEgypt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Due to security conditions the technician dispatched to repair the<br \/>\nfibre breaks in Egypt will only arrive at the site of the break at<br \/>\napproximately 4am GMT (6am South African time). It should then take<br \/>\nbetween an hour to two hours to perform the fibre repair. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We are therefore looking at an estimated time of repair of somewhere<br \/>\nbetween 7am and 8am providing there are no unforeseen complications.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" size=\"2\">\n<p>Hi All,<\/p>\n<p>We are currently experiencing a failure on the SEACOM Cable.<\/p>\n<p>Having spoken to SEACOM&#8217;s NOC, they say there is currently a problem of unknown cause between Mumbai and Marseille.&nbsp; At current there is unfortunately no further information, and as a result there are no estimated restoration times as of yet.<\/p>\n<p>We will be tracking this through the night and as soon as we have more information will send out further updates.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Alston<br \/>TENET &#8211; Chief Technology Officer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Failure on the SEACOM Cable. - UCT HPC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2011\/03\/17\/failure-on-the-seacom-cable\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Failure on the SEACOM Cable. - UCT HPC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This just in from TENET:&nbsp;&nbsp;Update: The SEACOM Network Operations Centre (NOC) have confirmed that the  international outage is being caused by a terrestrial fibre break in  Egypt. 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