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According to a statement from SEACOM, SEA-ME-WE 4, which stretches from southeast Asia to Europe via the Indian Sub-Continent and Middle East, was initially scheduled to undergo repairs in the Mediterranean Sea on April 17, but the work was rescheduled to April 24. But by Monday of this week, service had yet to resume.

“The ongoing repair work is affecting several cable systems and has impacted negatively on the overall Internet connectivity in many regions across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, which rely to some extent on the availability of the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable for global connectivity,” said the press statement on SEACOM’s Web site.

Although SEACOM says it is working with some operators to route the capacity to an Internet access point in India, the repair work is managed and controlled by SEA-ME-WE 4, which has indicated that the repair window may be extended to this Friday.

The slow connectivity has raised issues of local content and hosting, as most ISPs grappled with reduced capacity on satellite, compared to what is usually provided via fiber.

Below is the response from our Fibre Optic Providers

Due to the failure in SMW4 cable system at Italia Palermo (submarine cable network), there may be congestion in the internet traffic to Europe & East coast of US.

The repair work already been commenced & would get completed by 30th April, 2010. There may be partial disruption in service to certain web sites & may experience slow connectivity during this period.

In addition, we know some of our South American customers are also effected with latency issues and in some cases connectivity.

Pc Video Conference Support Team

www.PcVideoConference.com