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New update at 5am SAST: So they have initiated the deployment of the ship to the wet plant. That does not mean, though, that the ship is actually is already on its way – it’s deployment is initiated…

Official communications from SEACOM have been promised to follow…

In addition:

SEACOM’s investigations have revealed that an offshore repeater has failed on the cable’s segment 9, to the north of Mombasa. This unexpected failure affects traffic towards both India and
Europe. Traffic within Africa is not affected.

At SEACOM.mu, they have added a news item: (more…)

One of my service providers have forwarded me an update to the latest SEACOM outage:

According to the update, SEACOM has sent out notification that they are currently localising the fault from both Mumbai and Dar-es-Salaam (in Tanzania). (more…)

Afrihost, as well as a range of other resellers of SEACOM bandwidth, again had to post notifications today of network downtime:

We are experiencing an intermittent International ADSL connectivity problem. Our upstream service providers’ engineers are investigating the cause of the problem. We will post more details here shortly once we have more information.

Services such as Instant Messenger and websites hosted overseas(google,facebook) have been affected.

From my datacentres’ notification reports, I can say that this is related to a failure on the SEACOM link in Kenya; as Afrihost’s only redundancy would be their hosting infrastructure, which their proxy is running on, they’re pointing users to http://www.afrihost.co.za/proxy.pac as the proxy solution for now.

Data centres are using other redundancy links through London and DC  on a very congested local network with now high latency… (more…)