Backbone link between our Madrid and Johannesburg datacenters down Sunday 6th August 2023 - 18:44


At this moment, we are experiencing problems with: Backbone link between our Madrid and Johannesburg datacenters.

The cause of the incident is currently: Fiber cut

We have taken the following actions to resolve the incident: We are currently monitoring the situation and are in touch with our vendor regarding status updates.

Estimated time of repair: Unknown.

Impact: Due to the current incident on our backbone link between our Madrid and Johannesburg datacenters, users between these and surrounding regions may experience increased latency.

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Vendor has reported back that traffic via submarine cable WACS S1i has gone down and have sent their field engineers to fix the exact break.