EASSy goes live on Friday

The more cables the better for South Africa. Lets hope by the end of the year we will start seeing some price reductions. PS Lets forget about Telkom and their * wait until August approach*
By the time they wake up from the World Cup slumber the rest of the ISP industry will be 500 km down the road!!!!
 
SEACOM 1.92Tb, 80Gb lit
EASSY 1.4Tb, 30Gb lit

So WACS is 3.84 - How much are they going to light up - 10gb?????

Come folks download more and we will get more :) - I will personally commit to downloading 1tb a month if they use activate all bandwidth
 
What I hope is that mweb will have space on this cable but not just for back up! But use it at the same time. So my traffic will be rather routed on this cable so my ping will be better.
 
They say that eassy is designed with redundancy in mind ?
In a presentation in Sandton, Wood highlighted the robust design of the EASSy system which safeguards it against a single cable break bringing down the whole system. The physical cable itself also has a more robust casing than many of the other submarine cable systems to guard against possible cable breaks.
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So which monkeys designed seacom then where we seen a dismall performance with this
 
OK .. so this is the second cable that Neotel partly owns (or has invested in) .. tell me again why Neotels data prices are so MASSIVE ??

They have backhaul .. and are immune to the LLU issue that plagues all ADSL ISPS ...

Im very confused ??
 
ajax said:
Can we get an indication from the reps from the ISP's when this bandwidth will filter down to the consumer? I don't mean necessarily pricing wise, but just having the redundancy available?
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As with Seacom - infrastructure is required to bring the capacity from the cable endpoint to the door of the ISPs. Once all the physical construction is completed there is fairly fancy equipment required at the ends of the cable. I would say 6 months at the very least before your bytes start flowing through EASSy.
 
Bandwidth is lit on the cables as its sold, why have more than 90Gbps if no one has purchased it? Thing is as more cables make international bandwidth cheaper.

Problem with all this, Telkom needs to drop it's adsl line rental.
 
ambo said:
As with Seacom - infrastructure is required to bring the capacity from the cable endpoint to the door of the ISPs. Once all the physical construction is completed there is fairly fancy equipment required at the ends of the cable. I would say 6 months at the very least before your bytes start flowing through EASSy.
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Forgive me then if this sounds sarcastic but couldn't this have been planned and put in place beforehand??
 
Lets see if it has a bigger impact than what Seacom first did. I think their maybe far less expectation from this launch...:wtf:
 
moggie said:
Just so that you can see who has invested EASSy...

http://www.eassy.org/consortium.html
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The EASSY website (last updated in 2008!) is completely blank with regard to onward connectivity (the link is broken). Given the cable terminates in Port Sudan, where does it connect to?
http://www.eassy.org/northern connectivity.html

Acoording to Wikipedia the most likely cable that lands at Port Sudan is FALCON (run by Alcatel-Lucent, part of the FLAG cable system).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FALCON_(cable_system)

Edit: The WIOCC site is much more informative about onward connectivity:
http://www.wiocc.net/network.htm

One of the most 'connected' landing sites is Djibouti, which connects to EIG:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIG_(cable_system)

AFAIK Port Sudan could be seen as a 'terminus', not the main junction point, which would be Djibouti.
 
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I need to convince Telkom to install a DSLAM closer to my residence so I can actually benefit from faster than 1mb connections -.-
 
highway to my door

Pity that the cable still needs to connect to Telkom at the house for which you pay line rental and ADSL rental. Here's a thought Telkom, why not scrap the line rental and add a nominal amount (like DSTV's Xtraview/PVR fee). PVR fee is R65 and subscription is R529. That is 12.29%. So Telkom should charge around R17 (R131*12.29%) for access to this "value added service" that they provide over EXISTING infrastructure. MultiChoice is making a killing, Telkom could as well in my opinion. Off topic: wonder if TopTV will charge a PVR access fee?
 
jetlee said:
OK .. so this is the second cable that Neotel partly owns (or has invested in) .. tell me again why Neotels data prices are so MASSIVE ??

They have backhaul .. and are immune to the LLU issue that plagues all ADSL ISPS ...

Im very confused ??
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Thats true.
But immune or just stoopid. As the second fixed line operator I would fight for LLU for my part of the LL.
 
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