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Sat-3 Maintenance
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Update: 2010-02-11 10:02
Kindly take note that Planned Maintenance is still in progress on the SAT3
cable system in order to perform further testing and make a final attempt to
repair the System. The Power on the SAT3 P3 (Southern Segment) is not
normal, and it is suspected that there are BU (Branching Unit) problems at
Lagos. All Non Restorable traffic on SAT 3 P3 have been affected since 02h00
this morning and will be restored as soon as the Branching Units are
re-configured and the power is normalised.
SAIX traffic has been re-routed but users may experience latency and
congestion problems.
Kindly take note that Planned Maintenance is still in progress on the SAT3
cable system in order to perform further testing and make a final attempt to
repair the System. The Power on the SAT3 P3 (Southern Segment) is not
normal, and it is suspected that there are BU (Branching Unit) problems at
Lagos. All Non Restorable traffic on SAT 3 P3 have been affected since 02h00
this morning and will be restored as soon as the Branching Units are
re-configured and the power is normalised.
SAIX traffic has been re-routed but users may experience latency and
congestion problems.
ocean-addict
Well-Known Member
Um, u got me, I have no idea what I was on about there.. But a Seacom link could be used for redundancy from SAT3.. I know a few businesses who have been considering this since SAT3 went down.
Screamer, gconnect and I think openweb. Webafrica are migrating in March. There are others as well, but they wouldnt advertise the fact.
Huh, SAT-3 has redundancy via SAFE. Seacom has none, you would have to speak to another supplier to get "personal" redundancy via SAT-3 or SAFE. If SAT-3 or SAFE fails then other one acts as a backup/redundant link for it as has happened now with SAT-3, side effect is higher latency though due to the route followed.
Telkom report that the non-impact work that was scheduled for this
morning (11/2/10) was fortunately a success.
The planned SAT3 traffic normalisation is still scheduled for Friday
morning, 12 February 2010 @ 02h00 - 16h30.
It is hoped that the normalisation will be completed within the first 6
hours of the scheduled change window tomorrow. The normalisation steps
will cause brief patching breaks to restorable traffic, which is deemed
to have little to no affect on customer services.
morning (11/2/10) was fortunately a success.
The planned SAT3 traffic normalisation is still scheduled for Friday
morning, 12 February 2010 @ 02h00 - 16h30.
It is hoped that the normalisation will be completed within the first 6
hours of the scheduled change window tomorrow. The normalisation steps
will cause brief patching breaks to restorable traffic, which is deemed
to have little to no affect on customer services.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrryyyyyyyyyy sloooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwww heeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrreeeeeee 
veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrryyyyyyyyyy sloooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwww heeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrreeeeeee
Where abouts are you?
techead
Honorary Master
can someone explain to me why I seem to be uneffected by this whole thing? the only thing I have noticed is higher latency when playing wow and heroes of newerth
otherwise Im downloading at the normal 430K/sec from international and local, so ya Im a bit confused
otherwise Im downloading at the normal 430K/sec from international and local, so ya Im a bit confused
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
Joburg CBD
What do you mean? Surely everyone using the SAT-3 cable will be affected if the SAT-3 cable has a problem? I am pretty ignorant though on how the SAT-3 cable works exactly...
A portion of Sat-3? I thought there was only one Sat-3 undersea cable? Everyone is affected, thus causing higher latency with some and slow download rates due to congestion with others. Then theres the people who don't have international at all. Correct me if i'm wrong though.
Exactly what I thought. I was under the impression that everyone had been rerouted through the SAFE cable or something? Or the SAT-2. But surely if the SAT-3 cable is broken, then nobody can use it at all, meaning everyone is affected. Unless your ISP doesn't use SAT-3 I guess..
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