Seacom has "systemic problems with their repeaters"

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Was anyone at the Seacom presentation at Submarine Networks World Africa event last week?

I hear they stated that there are "systemic problems with the repeaters used in the Seacom system".

These repeaters are needed every 100km or so, and the Seacom system is apparently 17,000 km long - suggesting that there are 170 of those babies under the ocean. Even with a 25-year Mean Time to Fail, that implies that we could have at least 6 failures a year to look forward to... with a 2-3 week outage time for each...

Looks like EASSy - live last week (http://wiocc.wordpress.com) - couldn't have been better timed...
 
So which ISP's are looking at using this cable? <--- The EASSy cable
 
I cannot see how such a system can be a viable business option.

It's supposed to be stable and not going up and down all the time...
 
Alcatel seem to have a bit of a monopoly on the cables running on the west coast of Africa (that work!).

Does anyone know who installed SEACOM (Tyco?) and what switchgear they use?
 
portcullis said:
Does anyone know who installed SEACOM (Tyco?) and what switchgear they use?
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I'll guess Alcatel did the cable install. The switch gear is most likely Tyco seeing it's owned by TATA (BSNL)/Seacom whatever it's called now a days. Nothing wrong with the Tyco kit, it's also used for SAFE in Mtunzini.
 
Garyvdh said:
um, surely this is the cable manufacturer's problem?
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Maybe, but a submarine cable system isn't like $10 radio where you can take it back to the manufacturer!

I'd say its Seacom's problem and Seacom's customers' problem... some of these guys are tied in for 20 years...
 
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