SAT-3 international ADSL outage explained (June 2012)
Not a cable break on SAT3, but “emergency planned maintenance” on EIG
SAT-3 international ADSL outage explained (June 2012)
SAT-3 international ADSL outage explained (June 2012)
Not a cable break on SAT3, but “emergency planned maintenance” on EIG
Last edited by Jan; 03-07-2012 at 09:17 PM.
Ah sometimes I miss the ISP industry & WA. Still remains one of the most exciting, interesting and educational businesses out there.
entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
They can go do their "emergency planned maintenance" at another time and not on my time. Another time includes holiday seasonsOriginally Posted by jes
I'd love to know why, when I was on an account that uses Seacom, my net was also dead slow?
We want answers ...
Makes redundancy look redundant. WTF?
Why do people get attacked by sharks? I mean, how do you not hear the background music?
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Looking back the cable repair ship was indeed on-site suspiciously fast. I must admit I didn't pick up on that though. Hindsight is 20/20 indeed.
Maybe all the SAT3 traffic was rerouted via seacom?
You only get one chance to piss off a client. After that they are an ex client ...
Yes, but it was a case of ISP's having no idea what happened and not having sufficient redundancy that resulted in a bit of a mess for some of them.
What happened here is NOT an example of "increasing resiliency". But grated communication played a roll.Bryant said that over the last few years the networks of local ISPs have become increasingly resilient to single system failures with the landing of cables such as EASSy and Seacom.
The same things were said with Seacom and look how that turned out. I dearly hope this is the case, maybe 4 is the lucky number for redundant cables.With WACS currently getting deployed that trend is set to increase
On a side note, considering ISPs are locked in a battle to reduce prices, have some of them not skimped on redundancy capacity?
This is my world, and you're not welcome in my world.
Local bandwidth usage probably overloaded the network.. ie. all the new uncapped accounts out there
And Telkom still calls their network "world class"Local bandwidth usage probably overloaded the network.. ie. all the new uncapped accounts out there
lol if an ISP has 1Gb/sec on Seacom and 1Gb/sec on SAT3, and they average 1.5Gb/sec, and SAT-3 goes down, what do you think will happen?
I don't think is realistic to have full n+1 redundancy on international links that are provided on a best-efforts basis... Else we'd be paying a lot more for our uncapped accounts.
"Emergency" planned maintenance?
Well I find it interesting that my Afrihost and Webafrica bandwidth was practically dead for the first few hours. On the other hand, my Telkom bandwidth is what I switched over to, as that was doing generally fine.And Telkom still calls their network "world class"
I must admit, and I agree with others asking, how come companies using a large Seacom portion were effected so heavily?
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