Massive capacity boost for SEACOM

[Kevin Lancaster]

Massive capacity boost for SEACOM

SEACOM said it is lighting 500Gbps in new capacity on its backbone platform from Africa to Europe which came online in January 2017.

 

[Chris.Geerdts]

Would love to know current throughput

 

[mister]

Would love to know current throughput

including or excluding all the downtime lately?

 

[Venom Rush]

including or excluding all the downtime lately?

Yeah, what's going on? I've just been told by my ISP that the international speed issues I'm experiencing are because SEACOM has some fault they need to fix. I'm getting an average of 5mbps on a 100mbps fibre line.

 

[Phence]

Yeah, what's going on? I've just been told by my ISP that the international speed issues I'm experiencing are because SEACOM has some fault they need to fix. I'm getting an average of 5mbps on a 100mbps fibre line.

You have a poor ISP that only relies on Seacom. They should use WACS/SAT3 etc.

 

[reactor_sa]

They'd be better off adding redundancy than more bandwidth. Africa's most unreliable backhaul