Lets sort this shee out

[Burny1]

Hey all!!

Someone asked the question why Sentech doesn't link into jinx and cinx and the response was that it costs a lot and that they still need to pay Telkom. My question is this. Doesn't their licence allow them to link into jinx and cinx using their own equipment? Surely the cost of linking into jinx and cinx is a lot less than what they pay IS for the same amount of bandwidth? I did some traceroutes to some international sites and each and everytime the highest peaks were on the IS side of things. The same goes for the local sites, albeit not as pronounced.

Hope someone can shed some light

Burny1

 

[arf9999]

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<br /> I did some traceroutes to some international sites and each and everytime the highest peaks were on the IS side of things. The same goes for the local sites, albeit not as pronounced.

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"highest peaks" - you mean pings...right? High latency on international is probably not IS's fault. It seems as if the outgoing route is via IS, and return path is via Sucktech satellite. Satellite routing adds about 600ms (or so I've heard)

 

[Burny1]

If the return is via satellite, why not do both? or would the pings be that bad? oh well, one just can't win

 

[dorris]

600ms would be for a 2 way sat communication, our pings are still reasonable, since outgoiing is routed via terrestrial means.

 

[Burny1]

Thanks, However i still would like to know why Sentech is not peering directly into Jinx and Cinx - maybe Kochira can answer that one for us?

Burny

 

[loosecannon]

it is in the pipelines burny im supprised it has not been done already as this will free up capacity for international

 

[Kaptain Khaos]

Hi i work for Sentech please be nice and use lube thanx !! NEXT !!

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