Hi Gaz,
Something like this below, this would be my example of "Involved", as I cant seem to find any information on the other 2 lines so far, hence why im asking here, for any information, the copy pasta, I dont think I want, or hope to give you
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The reason why im asking, is I cant get Telkom, or any of its Employees, to actually give me a response with regards to the Sat-3 or the EASSy line.
This is what I managed to get from Seacom, with regards to the process, as an ISP to get access/connected to the Seacom line, to provide
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Note that SEACOM only sells services from PoP to PoP on the SEACOM network. You will need to resolve your own local access links and also your internal IP Transit and Voice Clearing.
You have the option of a lease vs. IRU. However leases are expensive on a per meg/s per month price and IRU’s can be painful from a cash flow perspective. Using the analogy of dealing with a townhouse developer who has constructed several units, SEACOM operates the same way. Customers have the option of renting (lease) or buying the unit. Once a unit is bought (IRU) and ownership of the capacity is taken for a minimum period of 20 yrs, levies are due which are called annual operations and maintenance fee’s (OA&M). The smallest unit on sale is 155Mb/s (STM-1), followed by 622Mb/s (STM-4), then 2.5Gb/s (STM-16), and 10Gb/s (STM-64)
The minimum lease with SEACOM ranges from 1 - 5 yrs at a price of $95k to $65k pm. Alternatively you can buy an IRU at $3.4m which will be financed into 12 quarterly payments of $300k. Pricing attached in spreadsheet. IRU’s are cheapest when you take $3.4m/20 yrs/12months/155Meg/s. SEACOM Per unit prices decrease as you buy more units. We create a arbitrage to foster a wholesale market.
The benefits are greater when one considers the opportunities. As an example, costs per minute for interconnect to global operators are a few cents a minute in London, while we pay a fortune in Africa. Further, costs for Internet Access in London for 155Mbs is ~$2000 per month. SEACOM capacity at its reduced cost, allows South African businesses to access globally commoditised prices for communications and internet without losing price gains on the bandwidth to get to London.
In order to do a fair cost comparison you need the following:
1) An access link from your office to the Neotel Data Center in Midrand (where SEACOM PoP in JHB is located) from either Neotel, Telkom, Dark Fibre Africa (recommended), iBurst Broadlink. We can gladly make introductions to any of these suppliers.
2) Interconnect from your access link to your SEACOM link at the cost of R12000 per month paid to Neotel.
3) In London, you will need an Internet Service Provider such as Interoute at a cost of $1750 per month. You will also need a cross connect at a once off cost of GBP 1450.
Interoute will further offer you the ability to send international minutes across the voice exchange network through this same connection and termination rates are as low as a few cents. Please see attached some information from Interoute.
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Does this make more sense ?
