Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - The outage of internet cables touches everyone using the internet as the service is slow and videos buffers. Internet signals travel around the world, using undersea fibre cables. Ten undersea cables connect South Africa to the rest of the world and other parts of the continent, and play a critical role in providing stable connections to international servers.
As reported recently, four major cables are currently experiencing outages, and repairs can take weeks to months.
When cables like these break, it can result in severe service disruptions and force companies to re-route traffic to mitigate the effects: Seacom suffered an outage on its subsea cable system in the Red Sea region, disrupting the cable running from Mombasa, Kenya, to Zafarana, Egypt.