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
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.
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 -...