THE Seacom SUBSEA CABLE SYSTEM IS EXPERIENCING A SERVICE-AFFECTING OUTAGE – 25 November 13:29 GMT

The Seacom Subsea Cable System is experiencing a service-affecting outage on its ring-protected network between Abu Talat and Zafarana, in Egypt. This means that both terrestrial paths across Egypt are currently hard down, resulting in no traffic on the Seacom Subsea Cable System being able to reach Europe.

As a result of this, all linear transmission traffic on the Seacom Subsea Cable system from Southern Africa and on the East Coast of Africa, to and from Europe, is affected.

Customers with IP or other managed network services will remain unaffected but could experience a slight increase in latency as traffic is routed over Seacom's West Coast transmission links.