Bandwidth from one cable can be risky

Wow this seems uh, horribly out of date. Breaking news Mandela is the first president of the New South Africa!!!

While I appreciate the concise summation of what happened, this was well reported a documented already. So the lesson here is build redundancy if you want reliability, shocker.

Sorry but I just don't understand the point of this story, soon South Africa will be drowning in fibre and redundancy will be a given.
 
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EngineerIT eh? I guess a big "DUUUUHH!!" is in order here as comment on this very "insightful" article.

As for "seacom's quick response" comment... se gat man! What really amuses me is that this guy that wrote this, actually got paid for it.
 
Easy now, folks. Remember that EngineerIT is NOT a daily or weekly publication and is targeted at folks that most probably do NOT frequent MyBB. The author, Hans van den Groenendaal, has been around for a very long time; longer than most of us!!
 
The article is not dated. Many businesses still don't have redundancy and certainly don't plan on doing so. Now that things are back to "normal", people forget the annoying time they had by only having one ISP relying on SEACOM.
 
Sting said:
Easy now, folks. Remember that EngineerIT is NOT a daily or weekly publication and is targeted at folks that most probably do NOT frequent MyBB. The author, Hans van den Groenendaal, has been around for a very long time; longer than most of us!!
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People who get their news online sometimes forget that print media still exist. This article is from the first monthly print edition of EngineerIT following the SEACOM failure. Hans is somewhat opinionated, and a bit out of touch on some subjects, but generally a good print journalist in electrical engineering, the target market of the magazine.
 
um...BEFORE seacom we had ONE cable and NO disruptions...and that cable is still very sexually active. post your **** in your local tabloid dumbo and stop having brain tumors for breakfast...
 
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I loll'd when I read this. Its probably because its sooo far out of everyones minds and also fairly common knowledge.
Seacom are negotiating redundancy deals with Eassy so that the ISP's dont have to find their own alternate redundancy.
 
...whilst an extensive investigation was taking place to determine the exact cause of the outage.
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Did they ever reveal what caused the problem?
 
Must not troll... *struggle*

With regards to the title of this article THANK YOU CAPTAIN OBVIOUS! :D

/troll
 
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With regards to the title of this article THANK YOU CAPTAIN OBVIOUS! :D
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Really? Is it really that obvious? Is this why almost no ISP in South Africa had a backup plan in place when SEACOM went down?
 
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Really? Is it really that obvious? Is this why almost no ISP in South Africa had a backup plan in place when SEACOM went down?
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Totally different debate. Backup link costs $$$, eats into profit margins etc.

E.g. I could keep a spare car in the event my car breaks. However this would be very costly based on something I get little use out of. So in the event of my car breaking I could make a plan by renting a car etc. Not the best option technically but it is the best option financially.

So while we could debate whether the various ISPs considered redundancy (I'm sure the folk @ Mweb are busy googling that word) I'm sure it was considered by at least some ISPs, just not feasible from a cost perspective.

And it was a little troll, WHYSOSRS?
 
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