SEACOM outage: ISPs weigh in
Local ADSL ISPs are well prepared for next month’s SEACOM downtime, using both SEACOM’s redundant bandwidth and SAT-3 capacity
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http://monitor.net.tenet.ac.za/cacti/graph.php?action=zoom&local_graph_id=826&rra_id=1&view_type=
shows that seacom is down again.
anyone else having trouble?
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...
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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
Saw this posted and am wondering if I missed a fault notice somewhere here on MyBB?
Is this only relevant to certain Neotel services?
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/269467-Neotel-Down-since-1-30-and-counting?p=4735981&viewfull=1#post4735981
just got this....
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Hey Friends,
With great excitement, and years of planning, we have finally launched our brand new R19 per GB ADSL accounts.
These accounts run on a SAT3 / Seacom blended bandwidth solution, allowing reliability if the Seacom cable decides to go down again...
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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 -...