Mother Nature helping presales of new cable capacity?

Mother Nature is helping remind customers of the importance of having alternate paths when it comes to undersea cables, with a breakage near Jakarta for the SEWEME cable affecting Singapore Australia traffic. Expected fix date is mid October.

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2661733#r1


10626306 > SMW3 Cable Break
Service:
Internet, Ethernet
Category:
Hazardous
Status:
Active
ETR:
Description
Sea-Me-We 3 submarine cable between Perth and Singapore is currently down due to a confirmed cable break.

We have received a tentative repair completion of 13th October 2017 however these dates tend to change over time due to the nature of .

Customers can expect to see increased latency to Asian destinations until this link is restored.

Further updates will be provided as they become available.