The Léon Thévenin docked in the Port of Cape Town. It is currently on it's way to the Ivory Coast to repair damaged subsea fibre-optic cables. The Léon Thévenin, which is owned by Orange Marine, left Cape Town on Tuesday evening and is expected to arrive on 29 March.News24 Business front page.
This follows the break of four cables in the region that caused widespread internet outages in South Africa and some West African countries on 14 March. Subsea fibre-optic cables are crucial pieces of infrastructure that enable the internet in South Africa to function by enabling the rapid transfer of vast quantities of information across long distances.
Many internet service providers have been able to mitigate the impact of the breaks by re-routing traffic along other cables that connect South Africa to the world.
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