SEACOM explains prolonged problems

I smell a conspiracy here, SEACOM goes down all of a sudden, conveniently the last week of the month, AFRIHOST and the likes get refunded for the last week, but don't have to refund users lol
 
ir32001 said:
I smell a conspiracy here, SEACOM goes down all of a sudden, conveniently the last week of the month, AFRIHOST and the likes get refunded for the last week, but don't have to refund users lol
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And it has worked any other before? ;)
 
I can't live without the interweb! Myadsl is one of the few local sites I know, any other local sites worth visiting?
 
Hopefully this will be the last of it. When EASSy goes live these kind of downtimes will/should/maybe a thing of the past.... please God.

This is 2010... not 1910.
 
burn said:
I want Eassy to come and cure our problems ;(
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Garyvdh said:
Hopefully this will be the last of it. When EASSy goes live these kind of downtimes will/should/maybe a thing of the past.... please God.

This is 2010... not 1910.
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You do realise that EASSY terminates in Port Sudan, and will be reliant on Sea-Me-We4 for onward transmission:
http://www.eassy.org/project.html
http://www.eassy.org/backhaul configuration.html

EASSY would leave you in exactly the same position given today's situation AFAIK. At least SEACOM terminates in Mumbai, and has the (theoretical) option of trans-Pacific routing.
 
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And this is a new cable? God it has more problems than sat3 had in like 20 years.

Yes we just have to deal with it... Don't forget to pay your ISP for internet your don't have or you WILL get suspended.
 
thats why i have webafrica \:D an download at 425 KBps and getting 400ms latency
 
Gordon_R said:
You do realise that EASSY terminates in Port Sudan, and will be reliant on Sea-Me-We4 for onward transmission:
http://www.eassy.org/project.html
http://www.eassy.org/backhaul configuration.html

EASSY would leave you in exactly the same position given today's situation AFAIK. At least SEACOM terminates in Mumbai, and has the (theoretical) option of trans-Pacific routing.
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That's not entirely true. EASSY will also connect to several other cable systems... eg. EIG...

http://www.egovonline.net/news/news-details.asp?newsid=15987

22 May 2009

The MTN Group is investing in a new $700 million submarine cable system, the European Indian Gateway (EIG), to be built by Alcatel-Lucent starting next month. The 15,000 kilometre-long high bandwidth optical-fibre will connect Europe and India from the United Kingdom to Portugal, Gibraltar, Monaco, Libya, Egypt, Djibouti and the United Arab Emirates.

The cable's purpose is to provide a central linking point for other cable systems already in the pipeline such as the East African Submarine Cable System (Eassy) and the West African Cable System (WACS). The project is expected to be completed by the middle of 2010 and link other planned cable systems in Africa to global telecommunications infrastructure via Asia and Europe.

Installation of the EIG cable, which is equipped with upgradeable transmission facilities, is expected to increase efficiency and reduce operating costs for Internet connections, e-commerce, video, data and voice services, among other broadband services. The undersea cable will also provide the first direct, high bandwidth optical-fibre submarine cable system from the United Kingdom to India. EIG will provide seamless interconnections and capacity of up to 3.84 terabits per second with seamless links to major cables in North America as well.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php/photo/11186
http://europeindiagateway.com/1.html
http://www.communicationstoday.co.in/news/seamless-interconnection-915-92.html

Europe India Gateway

The Europe India Gateway (EIG) is a joint venture of Airtel and 17 other global telecom majors to build a cable system from India to United Kingdom. The EIG will be 15,000 km long and will connect 13 countries across three continents. This project with cost around USD 700 million (Rs. 3,360 crore) and is expected to carry commercial traffic by second quarter of 2010.

Airtel will be operating through the cable landing station in Mumbai. The other members of the EIG cable consortium include AT&T, BT, C&W, Djibouti Telecom, Du, Gibtelecom, IAM, Libyan Telecom, MTN Group Ltd., Omantel, PT Comunicações-S.A, Saudi Telecom Company, Telecom Egypt, Telkom SA Ltd, Verizon Business, and BSNL.

Beyond the Airtel cable landing station in India, additional cable landings will be provided in United Kingdom, Portugal, Gibraltar, Morocco, Monaco, France, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman, and United Arab Emirates. The EIG cable system will also provide seamless interconnection with other major cable systems connecting Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America.

The EIG cable system, with its large bandwidth and high quality transmission technology, will help meet the present and future growth in telecommunication traffic between the targeted regions.
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FoRmFacTor said:
it is not really unbelievable.

crap happens.

we just got to deal with it.

seacom does not have control over the other cable.

all we can do is be patient.
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Yep. And soon we will have some more cables to provide more redundancy. Just have to wait...not the end of the world.
 
East Coast Radio reported this afternoon that the Seacom service should be up again on Wednesday, hope this is so...damn all my dloads lined up and crawling @ snail pace :(
 
cryptic1 said:
East Coast Radio reported this afternoon that the Seacom service should be up again on Wednesday, hope this is so...damn all my dloads lined up and crawling @ snail pace :(
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same here. Getting 28KB/s max.
 
Oh noes .. you sucked the pipe dry!

Damn you serial downloaders!! .. HARRRR .. you guzzlers! HARRR .. na ye left nuttin' for the rest of us!! <- pirates of the caribbean voice
 
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