Bandwidth from one cable can be risky
Reliance on one cable for bandwidth is a risky business and can cause major disruptions and customer dissatisfaction, as was recently experienced with the disruption of the Seacom sub-marine cable.
Bandwidth from one cable can be risky
Bandwidth from one cable can be risky
Reliance on one cable for bandwidth is a risky business and can cause major disruptions and customer dissatisfaction, as was recently experienced with the disruption of the Seacom sub-marine cable.
Wow this seems uh, horribly out of date. Breaking news Mandela is the first president of the New South Africa!!!
While I appreciate the concise summation of what happened, this was well reported a documented already. So the lesson here is build redundancy if you want reliability, shocker.
Sorry but I just don't understand the point of this story, soon South Africa will be drowning in fibre and redundancy will be a given.
Last edited by Shayd; 28-08-2010 at 12:14 AM.
I expect to see an EASSY article very soon lol
EngineerIT eh? I guess a big "DUUUUHH!!" is in order here as comment on this very "insightful" article.
As for "seacom's quick response" comment... se gat man! What really amuses me is that this guy that wrote this, actually got paid for it.
Wow... talk about stating the obvious.
Easy now, folks. Remember that EngineerIT is NOT a daily or weekly publication and is targeted at folks that most probably do NOT frequent MyBB. The author, Hans van den Groenendaal, has been around for a very long time; longer than most of us!!
There is a fine line between bravery and stupidity
We need a article telling us this?
The article is not dated. Many businesses still don't have redundancy and certainly don't plan on doing so. Now that things are back to "normal", people forget the annoying time they had by only having one ISP relying on SEACOM.
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+1Originally Posted by Sting
People who get their news online sometimes forget that print media still exist. This article is from the first monthly print edition of EngineerIT following the SEACOM failure. Hans is somewhat opinionated, and a bit out of touch on some subjects, but generally a good print journalist in electrical engineering, the target market of the magazine.
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um...BEFORE seacom we had ONE cable and NO disruptions...and that cable is still very sexually active. post your **** in your local tabloid dumbo and stop having brain tumors for breakfast...
Last edited by Garro; 28-08-2010 at 11:27 AM.
ummm 2 cables... (SAT and SAFE)
There is a fine line between bravery and stupidity
oh okay
Wow interesting, never knew this
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I loll'd when I read this. Its probably because its sooo far out of everyones minds and also fairly common knowledge.
Seacom are negotiating redundancy deals with Eassy so that the ISP's dont have to find their own alternate redundancy.
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Did they ever reveal what caused the problem?...whilst an extensive investigation was taking place to determine the exact cause of the outage.
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