eFive talks up SAex cable between SA and the west

Setting high expectations there...I would love to see 120ms from Cape Town to Newyork...is it probably...I will believe it when I see it.
 
Thomas said that eFive is still in discussions on financing, and that the money for the cable will be a combination of debt and equity.
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Wake me up when they built the cable, this is all still just a pipe dream.
 
“I can’t reveal the names of institutions because they’ve asked us not to,” Thomas said. “It’s at a very sensitive stage.”
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I am guessing Vodacom and MTN. Neotel and Telkom probably too.
 
What happened to the other cable projects that were being implemented - there were I few if I remember? Why has seacom been the only one to have made a noticeable impact?
 
Joker said:
What happened to the other cable projects that were being implemented - there were I few if I remember? Why has seacom been the only one to have made a noticeable impact?
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I'd dispute your statement that SEACOM has been the only one with a noticeable impact. SEACOM did bring the price down as a first start, however, the impact of competition with WACS and EASSY then in turn brought SEACOM's pricing down to a lesser degree.

Also, without WACS and EASSY, the outages that SEACOM has had would have been felt far far more by the average consumer. The "noticeable" impact you seem to miss, is found in the fact that you don't see as many outages.

With regards to SAEx, while this is an interesting cable system, the pricing is going to be rather interesting, since the cabling between brazil and the states isn't particularly cheap at the moment. The other thing that will need to be watched is the impact on the pricing on this cable when its competition arrives in the form of the *MUCH* larger WASACE cable (WASACE has a design capacity for more than 3 times the SAEx cable, and is built in a ring topology covering Africa, South America, North America and Europe).

Having looked at both SAEx and WASACE fairly closely, I would be far more inclined to place my eggs in the WASACE cable at this point (though admittedly, both are still far from being completed).

Andrew
 
AndrewAlston said:
I'd dispute your statement that SEACOM has been the only one with a noticeable impact. SEACOM did bring the price down as a first start, however, the impact of competition with WACS and EASSY then in turn brought SEACOM's pricing down to a lesser degree.

Also, without WACS and EASSY, the outages that SEACOM has had would have been felt far far more by the average consumer. The "noticeable" impact you seem to miss, is found in the fact that you don't see as many outages.

With regards to SAEx, while this is an interesting cable system, the pricing is going to be rather interesting, since the cabling between brazil and the states isn't particularly cheap at the moment. The other thing that will need to be watched is the impact on the pricing on this cable when its competition arrives in the form of the *MUCH* larger WASACE cable (WASACE has a design capacity for more than 3 times the SAEx cable, and is built in a ring topology covering Africa, South America, North America and Europe).

Having looked at both SAEx and WASACE fairly closely, I would be far more inclined to place my eggs in the WASACE cable at this point (though admittedly, both are still far from being completed).

Andrew
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Great analysis Andrew. Either way, I think we need a cable to south america and/or USA ASAP... we're pretty overdue for a cable to Australia too if you ask me, unless the routing can be properly opened up to HongKong/Malaysia/India.. because right now everything seems to want to travel via London irrespective. Pretty lame to have a BASE latency of 150/175 (depending if you're in CPT/JHB) to overseas, considering all the cables popping up everywhere, don't you think? :)
 
"Construction of the cable will begin 14 months after “contract in force”, Thomas said, due to the time it takes to get the necessary permits in South Africa."

He actually means "That is how long it takes for all the parties involved responsible for the issuing of permits to wake up long enough to agree on the amount of their kickbacks." ;)
 
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More international fibre links on different routes with different landing points is really good for everyone - more bandwidth, less latency and proper redundancy.
 
eltherza said:
That would be awesome, but I don't think it's achievable.
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Think we might get that to Brazil, which in itself is awesome! More people to kill online is never a bad thing. They're pretty active gaming wise.
 
Awesome. Every cable landing in SA helps.

Now just to have our local infrastructure catch up so we can actually use all this international goodness :p
 
Wikipedia says mid-2017, but it also has no updated information since 2014.
 
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