The West African Cable System (Wacs) is broken again. The South African National Research & Education Network, a major user of the cable, detected the break just before midnight. Its network was stable, thanks to two other undersea cables that could take the load…
We are observing our WACS capacity as down since 23h28 UTC/27th March 2020. A call has been logged with our provider for feedback. Traffic has failed over to SEACOM and EASSy cable systems and there is currently no impact for SA NREN traffic.
— SA NREN Operational Updates & Alerts (@RENAlerts) March 28, 2020
… but the network warned that those working from home, using internet service providers (ISPs) without access to such other cables could see a speed impact.
With the WACS and continued SAT-3 outages on the East Coast, SA NREN users working from home during the #Covid19SA #LockdownSA may experience issues if their home providers do not have sufficient capacity via alternate sub-sea cable systems.
— SA NREN Operational Updates & Alerts (@RENAlerts) March 28, 2020
The break is reportedly on a section of cable between England and Portugal.
WACS Outage: The cut is on the cable belonging to TATA and is between Highbridge (UK) and Seixal (Portugal). Information will be imparted as it is received from TATA via our WACS service provider. There is no recent update on this matter further to the one below.
— SA NREN Operational Updates & Alerts (@RENAlerts) March 28, 2020
A previous break in the same cable, earlier this year, was apparently caused by a short circuit due to intense pressure from being trapped under heavy sediment carried by the flow of turbulent waters from the Congo River into the submarine canyon where the cable runs.
In a freak coincidence that previous break, in January, coincided with a break in a second undersea cable critical to South Africa’s global internet connections, the South Atlantic 3/West Africa (SAT-3/Wasc) cable.
Mid to late morning on Saturday, several ISPs said their customers were experiencing increased latency and poor speeds because of the break.
ISPs that said they were aware of such issues for all or part of their customer bases included Afrihost, Axxess, Cool Ideas, MWeb, and RSAWeb.
This is a developing story…
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Source: Business Insider