The South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) submarine communications cable system, which connects South East Asia and Europe, is reportedly cut in three places, off Palmero, Italy.
“IP Backbone capacity has been impacted due to an ongoing shunt fault in seg 4.1 of SMW4 between Alexandria & Marseilles with Cable Fault on FP#2 at 1886.152 Km from Alexandria towards Palermo. The Cable ship Electra has been mobilized by the consortium for repairs.” That’s the official version.
The SEA-ME-WE 4 is an international sub-marine cable consortium of 16 companies including Airtel and Tata Communications.
The submarine cable system outage has resulted in service disruptions in its terminal stations, including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria and France.
The cable repair ship has already been mobilized, however it’s been several days and services are still severely impacted.
