Undersea cable operator Seacom has restored all services on both its cables - the SMW4 and IMEWE systems.
This follows a second cut off the coast of Egypt this morning. The operator says that at 6:20am, on the morning of 27 March, the SMW4 cable system suffered a cable cut off the coast of Egypt.
"Earlier this morning, Seacom had restored all services on both SMW4 and IMEWE cable systems."
Seacom is in the process of prioritising and reallocating already available capacity for customers and sourcing further capacity to re-establish full restoration.
The cable launched the first undersea fibre-optic cable to connect Southern and Eastern Africa with Europe and Asia, in July 2009. On Friday morning, it suffered a physical cable cut some kilometres north of the coast of Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea.
Seacom suspects, based on its experience with sub-sea systems and the nature of the sea area where the initial cut occurred, that "the most likely cause is external aggression to the cable, most probably caused by a larger vessel dragging its anchor across the seabed".
This is a common cause of damage to cable systems globally, despite continued efforts to protect the cable with armour, burying, notifications to ships of cable location and exclusion zones, CEO Mark Simpson has said.
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