TENET have received notice from SEACOM that there will be an outage of the SEACOM fibre between 6 February and 10 February 2011. This is due to maintenance work on the SEA-ME-WE-4 fibre system.
TENET has secured sufficient alternative bandwidth during this period to meet the current and anticipated demand. As a result it is unlikely that there will be a prolonged Internet outage (although there might be a few short ones to handle switching traffic off and onto the SEACOM fibre). However, the bandwidth they've secured terminates in the Far East. This means that traffic to/from Europe and the Americas will have to travel significantly further than normal (all the way around the world in fact). As a result of this, we can expect that latency will increase significantly.
You will likely experience this as the international Internet being "slower" than normal. In addition, some latency-sensitive applications (like voice over IP traffic or realtime video) will suffer, perhaps to the point of being unusable.
If an when more information is available, we'll post it here.