sat-3

@PBCool Very glad to see you have joined us at Mybroadband, I just wanted to state that I have been using your service for approximately a week now and it has been fairly solid. I know in a previous posting you have stated that you guys don't throttle or shape your connections. I have...

Upgrade to 920Gbps for SAT-3 cable The SAT-3/WASC submarine cable has more than doubled its capacity after the completion of its fourth upgrade

Internet Solutions lights up WACS bandwidth New capacity on the West Africa Cable System has been lit, Internet Solutions announced

Seacom Durban-Cape Town link detailed Seacom plans to launch an undersea cable linking it to undersea cables that land near Cape Town during 2014

Telkom international connectivity problems ongoing Internet service providers and consumers alike continue to report international connectivity problems on the Telkom network

SAT-3 maintenance this weekend: latency warning Telkom is confident that planned maintenance on SAT–3 won’t result in downtime, but cautioned of possible increased latency

Maintenance on SAT-3 this weekend Telkom said that it will perform planned maintenance on its SAT3 undersea cable network, and that users may experience degraded international connectivity

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

ADSL international connectivity problems (29 June 2012) Afrihost and WebAfrica reporting upstream network issues

SAT-3 sub-sea cable upgrade under consideration The SAT–3 consortium is looking at upgrading the capacity on its cable

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

There is no SAT3 failure says Telkom According to Telkom, none of its Internet customers are impacted by the failure on a cable between Portugal and the UK

SAT-3 repairs are taking longer than expected MWeb updates customers on SAT-3 problems

MWEB secures SAT-3 bandwidth: details MWEB recently announced that it is landing SAT-3 cable capacity to bring more redundancy to its services. Here are the details.

MWEB secures SAT-3 cable capacity MWEB to light up Sat-3 capacity bringing more resilience to its customers

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...

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

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.

SEACOM explains prolonged downtime SEACOM network disturbance caused by extended repair work on SEA-ME-WE 4 cable; problems may continue for much longer

SEACOM still down Many ISPs suffer with international bandwidth constraints as SEACOM maintenance takes longer than expected