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Seacom operations fully restored : 4 November 2011
The break in an undersea cable on that <m> affected </m> Seacom has been repaired
November 4 , 2011
Undersea cable operator Seacom announced today ( 4 November 2011 ) that repairs have been completed on a broken cable off the coast of Egypt that caused an outage on its network .
Seacom said that its cable network was successfully repaired on 29 October 2011 and all circuits were restored to the core network as of 4 November 02 : 00 GMT .
All Seacom traffic to Europe was affected by the break which happened on 8 October 2011 on one of their Mediterranean backhaul service providers' cables between Abu Talat and Marseilles .
Initial indications were that the break would take 12 days to fix .
The cable operator announced that it had restored services to its business customers via alternate routes on 14 October 2011 .
This was followed by similar restoration to the rest of its clients on 20 October 2011 .
"Our partner network has informed us that the assigned cable ship worked in optimal weather conditions for the duration of their repairs .
The cable was quickly lifted , the new cable spliced in , tested and re - laid thanks to close coordination between the ship crew and on - shore support , " Seacom said in an announcement on their website .