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Seacom and Eassy problems: ADSL ISPs respond Seacom and Eassy are experiencing problems on their cable systems, and ADSL service providers in South Africa are forced to re-route traffic

Enough international bandwidth for now, reckons Telkom CEO Telkom CEO Nombulelo Moholi says that Telkom has no immediate plans to increase its investment in submarine cables

Please don’t mess this one up as well, DoC Another communications minister, another colloquium (but maybe it will be different this time around)

EASSy traffic routing fully restored by next week The SMW3 cable break will be fixed this weekend and EASSy traffic should be back to normal next week

SA-Brazil undersea-cable plans on track says eFive CEO eFive Telecoms CEO Rosalind Thomas promises to connect South Africa and Brazil within two years

More national bandwidth required in South Africa Undersea cable systems in South Africa can provide terabits of bandwidth, and the bottleneck is now national backhaul capacity

EASSy interconnects with Global Crossing WIOCC today announced the interconnection of its network with that of Global Crossing, a leading global IP solutions provider.

EASSy submarine cable system upgraded to 4.72Tbps West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC) announces EASSy design capacity increase to 4.72Tbps

EASSy exceeds bandwidth sale forecasts WIOCC expects that strong sales of EASSy capacity will continue in 2011; bandwidth to be doubled in 2011

EASSy plans to double capacity in 2011 EASSy is planning to boost its lit capacity in 2011; boasts 100% network reliability since launch

Finally, competition in the telecoms space After years, the "fixed-line" market is hotting up.

Might EASSy start another bandwidth price war? EASSy’s international bandwidth prices causing a stir in South African market

A couple of months ago I read that Seacom were investigating the cause of the repeater failure that caused their latest outage. I also saw that they were hoping to secure connectivity through the Red Sea and across Egypt "by September". Does anyone have an update on * the cause of the...

SEACOM planning to offer IP transit/Internet services SEACOM, Broadband Infraco and Teraco team up to bring Internet and IP transit services directly to local market

TENET wants on-demand international bandwidth TENET today released an RFP for the purchase of disaster recovery international bandwidth in case their SEACOM link goes down

How undersea cable design capacities are calculated How are undersea cable design capacities calculated and what influences the capacity of a cable system?

Kobus Stroeder - Former Chairman of WACS Management Committee. Kobus Stoeder is Executive Head: Global Capacity, Wholesale Services at Vodacom Business and is the chairman of the Management Committee on the WACS submarine cable project, and was part of the team that implemented the...

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.

Was anyone at the Seacom presentation at Submarine Networks World Africa event last week? I hear they stated that there are "systemic problems with the repeaters used in the Seacom system". These repeaters are needed every 100km or so, and the Seacom system is apparently 17,000 km long -...

International bandwidth boom: SEACOM, EASSy, Main One, WACS Main One and SEACOM team up to bring more international bandwidth to South Africa