SAT-3 sub-sea cable upgrade under consideration

Well they definitely need the upgrade to remain even semi relevant.
 
Or in other words: Telkom is desperate to prod their dying cash cow back to life. So the wheel has turned...
 
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You guys do realise that Telkom can jolly well also buy bandwidth on the WACS and Seacom cables, right ?
 
I thought SAT3 was at its maximum capacity and couldn't be increased any further?
 
abandonallhope said:
You have my eternal gratitude for pointing that out...

I absolutely did not expect that...

Thanks again...

How much bandwidth do they have on it ? ...
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About 500GB of the WACS 5.12TB capacity has been lit.
Telkom have about a 10% share.
I would guess 50GB on the current lit capacity?


PS. Telkom also own the Yzerfontein WACS landing station and share the maintenance costs with the other owners.
 
340Gbps on Sat3 vs 500Gbps on WACS, Sat3 has plenty of relevance as does SAFE with 440Gbps of lit capacity. WACS, Seacom and EASSy have all been quoted a lot on design capacity, but that is not LIT capacity, don't confuse the two...

Hopefully Sat3 will also reduce pricing a little more if they do this, basically I would assume (big assumption I know) the regular hardware refresh of transmission equipment and running costs don't really change too much, so the cost (and total profit) is split over more Mbps each time the cable is upgraded.
 
MickeyD said:
About 500GB of the WACS 5.12TB capacity has been lit.
Telkom have about a 10% share.
I would guess 50GB on the current lit capacity?


PS. Telkom also own the Yzerfontein WACS landing station and share the maintenance costs with the other owners.
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awesome thumbsuck, and yeah telkom caused the huge delay with lighting up the cable, because their stupid landing station wasn't anywhere near completion when the cable itself was completed.

So just as I think I couldn't possibly be any more grateful !
 
so... how do you actually upgrade an undersea cable?

1. new fiber transceivers replacing the old units
2. just lay a new one and use the old one till it's kaputt...

option 2 makes more sense as you can use the older cable as a redundant link until the issues (a la Seacom) has been sorted out with the new one...

SAT3 owners/shareholders must be very unhappy... :D
 
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