SEACOM outage: ISPs weigh in

[jes]

SEACOM outage: ISPs weigh in

Local ADSL ISPs are well prepared for next month’s SEACOM downtime, using both SEACOM’s redundant bandwidth and SAT-3 capacity

 

[zeyad 001]

Well atleast this time we have redundancy to back us up.

 

[Luf]

Mweb, as usual, pleasure doing business with you.

 

[gregmcc]

Good to know Mweb have a plan in place. Will be interesting to see which ISP's experience downtime.

 

[ndlovue6]

Cybersmart’s non-restored customers may however lose international connectivity if the planned SEACOM outage affects the ISP.

Neotel CTO Angus Hay said that their own IP network will be unaffected by the SEACOM outage as they have capacity on multiple international cable systems, including SAT-3 and SAFE.

When it comes to Neotel’s customers who bought leased lines and other services from the operator the redundancy will depend on the service descriptions and agreement between the two companies. Clients with ‘restored’ agreements will have no problem, Hay said.

In other words "We were caught napping and do not have a contingency plan."

There fixed it.

 

[rpedrica]

Why isn't anyone using EASSY?

 

[fragtion]

Why isn't anyone using EASSY?

+1
There's something strange about EASSy... havent heard much at all

 

[TrueSeeker]

Does anybody realize how significant it is that it will be business as usual despite a major undersea going down for several days. In a country where it's all too easy to get negative about our internet infrastructure this is welcome news

 

[Pansyfaust]

What the hell doe Neotel mean when they say : "restored Agreements" ?

 

[Creag]

Where is the response from AfriHost? Do they not route through Seacom? The silence is deafening!

 

[cpu.]

Lucky I just signed up for Gold, 1 Feb.

 

[drukkie]

What i don't understand? why does mweb have to buy the backup bandwidth from SEACom? wtf?

uhm sir you brand new BMW is screwed and we need to change the engine....yes.....7 days...
but don't worry you can rent this Polo from us....only R3000 a day...

 

[ingeon]

+1
There's something strange about EASSy... havent heard much at all

+1

Maybe EASSy was a mere test to see if the internet community would believe in a fake non-existing cable

 

[Creag]

Isn't EASSy a MTN thing?

 

[ingeon]

I found this. Don`t know how true it is

Another consequence is that Telkom’s history as a monopoly provider of an essential service may come back to haunt it. It already has management control over the SAT3/SAFE cable, which has connected South Africa to the world for much of the past decade. Now it has control over the South African landing point of the EASSy cable. Fair enough, since it made the investment that brought the cable to South Africa. However, that gives it management over two of the three cables that will now link South Africa to the world. Any hint of abusing this control to maintain pricing artificially, or to squeeze out competitors, will bring the watchdogs of monopoly behaviour down on their necks.

 

[Morph69]

any news from openweb yet?
as i just paid for my uncapped (I.S) last night & hope that they can keep up with the service without any "bumps" like in april.

 

[Sandman30s]

Where is the response from AfriHost? Do they not route through Seacom? The silence is deafening!

AfriGhost.

 

[Prof.Merlin]

What i don't understand? why does mweb have to buy the backup bandwidth from SEACom? wtf?

uhm sir you brand new BMW is screwed and we need to change the engine....yes.....7 days...
but don't worry you can rent this Polo from us....only R3000 a day...

I lulled!

 

[fragtion]

Guys AfriHost shouldn't have to respond, they depend on (resell) IS and maybe SAIX bandwidth, so we'd have to wait for an announcement from these upstream providers, and I'm sure that's what AfriHost is waiting for before they announce the news in a proxy manner to their own customers

 

[San-DraX]

lol