"The SEACOM undersea cable , which provides a data link between South Africa , Europe and India , experienced downtime beginning on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . .
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"The SEACOM undersea cable , which provides a data link between South Africa , Europe and India , experienced downtime beginning <m> on Saturday 8 October 2011 </m> , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . .
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TUESDAY , OCTOBER 11 , 2011
South Africa : P2P Control Helps Overcome Undersea Cable Outage
"The SEACOM undersea cable , which provides a data link between South Africa , Europe and India , experienced downtime beginning <m> on Saturday 8 October 2011 </m> , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . .
Meanwhile , local Internet Service Providers ( ISPs ) who use bandwidth on the SEACOM cable have been scrambling to implement contingency plans to keep their customers connected" .
According to an MWEB update - "Some more bandwidth was brought online last night [ 10 October 2011 ] bringing us up to 83% of our required capacity .
We allowed P2P traffic to run from midnight to 7am , after which it had to give way for critical traffic again . "
As MWEB also uses PeerApp's caching solution , it may help serve some P2P traffic without accessing the undersea cable .