[outages] Multiple Subsea System Failures

[Frank Bulk (iname.com)]

I posted something on outages-discussion a few days ago.  There's more here:
http://businesstech.co.za/news/telecommunications/34182/seacom-cable-outage-
explained/

Frank

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From: outages-bounces at outages.org [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org] On
Behalf Of Graham Beneke
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 2:39 AM
To: outages at outages.org
Subject: [outages] Multiple Subsea System Failures

This has been ongoing now for a few days and I'm surprised it hasn't yet
been mentioned here:

There are currently cable breaks on multiple cable systems running
through Egypt and surrounding areas. From what I've heard there are
breaks on I-ME-WE, TE-North, EIG and SEA-ME-WE-3.

This is affecting onward connectivity on a number of other cables such
as EASSy and Seacom as no restoration capacity is available. This is
causing capacity constraints and outages for most operators in Southern
and Eastern Africa as well as the Middle East.

ETRs of between 1 and 4 weeks depending on whether you speak to the PR
people or the engineers. ;-)

Anyone else have additional info?

-- 
Graham Benek
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