SAT 2 Cable.

[Luf]

Hey guys,

Just out of pure interest, we always talk about the SAT3 / SAFE and Seacom cable but what has happened to the SAT2 Cable? Has it been completely decommissioned or do we still use it for abit of voice and data?

As i said, just interested to know. Why would Telkom (and other owners) not just upgrade this cable system for additional internation bandwidth, surely it would be a hell of a lot cheaper than building another cable system?

Cool, thanks in advance.

 

[LazyLion]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT-2_(cable_system)

Still running, still owned by Telkom.

 

[Luf]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT-2_(cable_system)

Still running, still owned by Telkom.

Thanks mate, I did see that but information is rather thin..

 

[ToxicBunny]

You probably find that there is a maximum that the cable can be upgraded to due to certain technologies used... therefore its more economical in the long run to build a completely new cable.

 

[Sting]

I also think that the cable has degraded to the extent that a total replacement is required.

 

[Hummercellc]

Wow SAT-2's Capacity would be able to manage 140 4meg lines from telkom ha ha

 

[Gambit]

The cable is old and probably uses repeaters instead of the modern optical amplifiers. If this is the case then they would need to replace all the repeaters if they wanted to upgrade the capacity of the cable.

 

[rph72]

I believe there is a company that specialises in lifting old submarine cables, bringing them ashore where they are stripped & the metal recycled.

 

[elysian]

Wow SAT-2's Capacity would be able to manage 140 4meg lines from telkom ha ha

haha yeah, but Telkom will work their magic and make sure they get many multiples of 140 out of that cable by contending it to death.

 

[Gordon_R]

When it was built in 1993 it could probably handle 20,000 analog phone calls, or 24 TV channels. Just an indication of how much things have changed...