--- title: "The lessons Seacom learnt from its massive 2024 outage" url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-lessons-seacom-learnt-from-its-massive-2024-outage-taeiel23h source_url: https://techcentral.co.za/the-lessons-seacom-learnt-from-its-massive-2024-outage/281351 type: article source: "TechCentral" published: 2026-05-14T08:48:32.091Z updated: 2026-05-14T08:48:57.128Z reading_time: 4 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The lessons Seacom learnt from its massive 2024 outage **[TechCentral](https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary When a Houthi missile struck the Rubymar cargo ship in the Red Sea in February 2024, its drifting anchor severed three subsea cables including Seacom, causing a prolonged outage that cut Seacom's contribution to Remgro's headline earnings by ~78%. Seacom's Richard Schumacher shares the key lesson: redundancy at every layer — first mile, middle mile, and last mile — is not optional. While Africa's subsea cable landing points have improved, the middle-mile gap remains acute for landlocked countries. Ongoing geopolitical threats in the Red Sea and potential Bab-el-Mandeb closure continue to threaten east coast connectivity, though west coast cable rerouting has provided meaningful mitigation. The core takeaway for any network operator or enterprise: single points of failure are a serious business risk. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Seacom earnings surge as subsea cable disruptions ease](https://daily.dev/posts/seacom-earnings-surge-as-subsea-cable-disruptions-ease-o66lnhb8d) · TechCentral · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The internet has a Strait of Hormuz problem](https://daily.dev/posts/the-internet-has-a-strait-of-hormuz-problem-ncupqxxzl) · TechCentral · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-lessons-seacom-learnt-from-its-massive-2024-outage-taeiel23h)