Bandwidth boost from sea cables

underwater cables

Great, some more underwater cables... this brings our total possible bandwidth to oh, something like 8.45 Tbps. But they are only buying in 20 Gbps increments. So if the cable has capacity why are they not buying more capacity? Is it to create higher demand? What is the cost per month for 20 Gbps on the Seacom cable? I for one, would like to know... 500k broadband users in SA can only use 40Gbps.

The Seacom cable has a total capacity of 1,2 terabytes a second (Tbps). It will initially boost global bandwidth by 20 gigabytes per second (Gbps) to 40Gbps in SA and another 20Gbps to 30Gbps in East African markets.
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BTW usually Tbps == Terrabits per second, not Terabytes per second. Because 1.2Tbps != 1.2TBps. 8bits = 1Byte etc...
 
These articles are awesome, every day we hear how much bandwidth we can expect to get. Every day. Every single day. Just shut up for a bit about these pipes until we actually get the bandwidth to use.
 
Noruk said:
Great, some more underwater cables... this brings our total possible bandwidth to oh, something like 8.45 Tbps. But they are only buying in 20 Gbps increments. So if the cable has capacity why are they not buying more capacity? Is it to create higher demand? What is the cost per month for 20 Gbps on the Seacom cable? I for one, would like to know... 500k broadband users in SA can only use 40Gbps.



BTW usually Tbps == Terrabits per second, not Terabytes per second. Because 1.2Tbps != 1.2TBps. 8bits = 1Byte etc...
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I agree. Can someone fix this maybe? It would be really awesome if we got TeraBytes per second....

This all sounds wonderful and all, but how long is it going to take the investors (Telkom, Neotel, etc etc) to pay it off before they can actually drop the prices?
 
TO GOOD TO BE TRUE

Is this another fantasy store told to us by the investors?

It is always about the future, but history learns us that Telkom was exited, not the user. Because we got the peaches and Telkom got the cream.
 
killadoob said:
Boost not make cheaper, people come on now :p
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And right there you have hit the nail on the head!

My consistent gripe has been for the ISPs and telcos to "show me the money"!

All I have seen to date is speculation and marketing hype.
 
lol, bandwith hype-o-machine is more smokin than poor olde DNF's
 
I will be happier when I read "Six cables have boosted South Africa's bandwidth"
 
no; rather something worthwile reading

today the price of boardband HAS dropped by 80%, for the first time residents are experiencing true adsl2+

/goes off to write an article
 
The take-up of capacity on the cable is expected to increase exponentially.
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SAT3 = 130Gbps

Initially, Seacom in SA = 20Gbps to 40Gbps.

That is very little of the 1200Gbps capacity of the entire cable. And only an additional 15%-30% increase in SA's international bandwidth capacity. Is that because so few ISPs are buying up additional capacity?

There is a pent up demand for international capacity
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There is pent up demand from business and consumers, but only at lower prices.

If you want more bandwidth at current prices, it is not like you are turned away.

But what if ISP's are quite happy with the status quo? Who is going to drop their prices to stimulate this demand? Are terrestrial networks even up to the task of delivering extra bandwidth? Do they even want to?

After hearing Neotel say "If there is more demand, prices will drop..." I'm beginning to have serious doubts about our imminent bandwidth nirvana.

Capacity is one thing, utilization quite another.
 
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Gatecrasher said:
SAT3 = 130Gbps

Initially, Seacom in SA = 20Gbps to 40Gbps.

That is very little of the 1200Gbps capacity of the entire cable. And only an additional 15%-30% increase in SA's international bandwidth capacity. Is that because so few ISPs are buying up additional capacity?
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Is 20-40Gbps being online at all with 1.2Tbps available?

There is pent up demand from business and consumers, but only at lower prices.
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Amen!!!

As has been said several times on this forum. The prices are unlikely to drop... What you get for the same Rand should change (at the very least)...

But what if ISP's are quite happy with the status quo? Who is going to drop their prices to stimulate this demand? Are terrestrial networks even up to the task of delivering extra bandwidth? Do they even want to?
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I don't expect anyone (ISP's that is) to drop prices. I do expect that they want to maintain their cash flow. So, I think it reasonable to expect that they will give us something when they get something... When can I expect that?

OpenBrowse? Axxess? WebAfrica? Cybersmart?
Throw us a bone here?

After hearing Neotel say "If there is more demand, prices will drop..." I'm beginning to have serious doubts about our imminent bandwidth nirvana.

Capacity is one thing, utilization quite another.
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Again. Amandla!!!
 
all talk and no bandwidth.Where are the more for less? when? o wait it's immanent!
 
Bring it on... the more the merrier for us all! I am looking forward to finally getting out of the dark ages.
 
Heard it all before. Dont believe a word of it.

The bitching and whining will stop once we start seeing results.
 
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