EaSSy

[Lament]

Are any of the ISP using them?, why don’t i ever hear anything about them?
they have been operational in SA since last year if im not mistaken?

 

[wheunis]

According to EaSSy, quite a few ISP's have purchased redundant bandwidth from them.
Biggest is Telkom (Go figure!!!).

I believe MWEB and IS have also obtained a few redundancy links on EaSSy.

 

[Fayainz]

I wonder if any ISP's are going to use EaSSy as their main international outbreak, seems everyone is purchasing EaSSy for redundancy...

 

[Lament]

Then why do we always hear when seacom is down that everyone is on SAT-3 redundancy?, why not EaSSy?, why is everything about Eassy kept so quite?, we have a submarine cable 3 times bigger than SEACOM, 11 times bigger than SAT3 and 26 times bigger than SAFE, but we never ever hear anything about them
Very Very Strange if you ask me

 

[wheunis]

Then why do we always hear when seacom is down that everyone is on SAT-3 redundancy?, why not EaSSy?, why is everything about Eassy kept so quite?, we have a submarine cable 3 times bigger than SEACOM, 11 times bigger than SAT3 and 26 times bigger than SAFE, but we never ever hear anything about them
Very Very Strange if you ask me

/shrug.

Been out of the "give a damn"-game with ISP's for quite a while now.
Most likely it has something to do with quantity and Bulk discounts.