Laying undersea cable. Telecommunications firms that connect their international traffic through Seacom are experiencing erratic internet linkages and may be forced to look for alternative routes following cuts on the undersea cable in northern coast of Egypt. File
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The cable provides the bulk of international data links to Kenya with leading operators such as Safaricom and Kenya Data Networks linking their clients to the outside world through it.
The country has three other undersea cables — TEAMs, EASSy and LION2 — which affected operators can reroute their traffic to or use satellite connectivity.
Telecommunications firms that connect their international traffic through Seacom are experiencing erratic internet linkages and may be forced to look for alternative routes following cuts on the undersea cable in northern coast of Egypt.
In a statement on its website the undersea cable provider it will take hours to arrange network re-routing and that it will contact its customers directly to discuss the restoration options.
The cable provides the bulk of international data links to Kenya with leading operators such as Safaricom and Kenya Data Networks linking their clients to the outside world through it.
The country has three other undersea cables — TEAMs, EASSy and LION2 — which affected operators can reroute their traffic to or use satellite connectivity.
To get backup capacity on the undersea cables costs between Sh2.4 million and Sh3.2 million a month. It costs Sh23 million for the same capacity a month through satellite service providers, which some of the operators say is too high.
“Multiple subsea cable cuts have been confirmed off the northern coast of Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea, which are impacting a number of cable systems in Africa, Middle East and Asia connecting to Europe,” read a statement on Seacom’s website.
“SEACOM is currently working to establish restoration options on alternative capacity across the Mediterranean Sea and also by adding further IP capacity in Asia.”
The outage comes barely a week after Seacom completed an upgrade on the 17,000km undersea network that covers India, Egypt, Dijbouti, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, and South Africa.
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