SAT-3 Submarine Cable Info

[mavx]

Edit: One address was a company link.

http://www.safe-sat3.co.za/HomePage/SAT3_WASC_SAFE_Home.asp

With all the news about the cable and it's exposure of late I thought these might be usefull. Not too sure if they have been posted before, if so, my bad.

SAT-3:
40Gb/s as at June 2003
120Gb/s Ulitmately

SAFE
30Gb/s as at June 2003
130Gb/s Ultimately

 

[BTTB]

Thanks mavx.

This has been poted several times, but I hope all the new members find it useful.

Never bothered to look who owns the domain safe-sat3 before.
>Telkom SA LTD first billed on 1998-12-08- Figures.

History tells us that in the space of twelve years, three Portuguese sailors unlocked the secret routes of Africa by finding a sea passage to the East via the Cape of Good Hope. On the third attempt, Vasco da Gama, finally reached India from Lisbon in 1498 after a voyage lasting almost a year. He succeeded because of a chance meeting with an Arab pilot named Ibn Majib. Majib guided Da Gama from the East Coast of Africa to West Coast of India, giving the Portuguese an alternative spice route and a monopoly on eastern trade.

Today, in the space of just over ten years, submarine fibre optic cables have become the modern vessels for trade and communications between international markets and the African continent.

Now, five hundred years after Da Gama's trail-blazing journey, a new submarine cable system has been established which closely follows the navigators route from Portugal, down the West Coast of Africa, around the Fairest Cape and finally landing in the East at India and Malaysia.

Interesting.
Old Vasco Da Gama should have laid a cable 500 odd years ago.
Imagine how cheap bandwidth would have been by now.
Even Joan(sic) Van Riebeeck could have afforded ADSL.