SEACOM reveals bandwidth utilisation

It wasnt all that fast. Think the exhibitors were using a lot of the capacity.
 
To misquote BTO "We aint seen nothing yet."
 
5% to 6% utilisation? Whhhhyyyy? We have been battling for international bandwidth forever and now that we have the capacity, it's not being used, WTF?
 
“SEACOM is a wholesale structure, so although our [STM-1] public price might be higher, Neotel and Internet Solutions will purchase at a higher level, which [is] lower [than Telkom] prices, and they will pass those savings on,” said Herlihy.
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No they won't!!! R1 cheaper is not cheaper...
 
I'm still waiting to see what IS is gonna do with their new shiny portion of the cable.
 
and they will pass those savings on
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Execs should stop saying this crap, if you are not passing it on directly to consumers don't add salt to the wound.. tiSa!!
 
well at least the Rwanda President thanked the seacom people for bringing faster communication technology to his country.

I don't think our President has even heard of the interwebs
 
Seacom cable

Hopefully sometime in the far distant future it will have a positive effect with regard to reducing the end cost of bandwidth to the man in the street. So far it has just increased the profits of ISPs via reduced wholesale charges to them.
 
5 to 6% usage

The reason why only 5 to 6% is being utilized is because a very large portion of the population have no intention of being internet connected due to the exorbitant costs involved.
 
Shred said:
5% to 6% utilisation? Whhhhyyyy? We have been battling for international bandwidth forever and now that we have the capacity, it's not being used, WTF?
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Agreed. Just give me a frikken ethernet socket so I can lay my cable to the seacom hub. ;-)
 
jak3 said:
I'm still waiting to see what IS is gonna do with their new shiny portion of the cable.
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Theyre going to sell it at previously inflated prices to all their existing locked in customers and make a killing. What else?
 
So that is 1310.72Gbps * 0.06 = 78.6432Gbps which is
78.6432Gbps / 80Gbps = 98.304% utilization of the actual equipped capacity...

So how does this work? Why are they not upgrading their capacity? These figures we have been getting are lies I think.

"Speaking on cable design capacity versus equipped capacity, Meyer emphasised that while cable systems such as SEACOM advertise a 1.28Tbps design capacity, they have only equipped the cable with 80Gbps. According to Meyer, Telkom has officially equipped SAT-3 with 340Gbps and SAFE with 440Gbps."

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/9969.html
 
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FFS equip the damn cable for 1.28Tbps................ What's holding them back??
It doesn't make sense.... We need more bandwidth yet we don't use the facilities. Kind of like having a Bentley and the money to run it but using a TAXI instead...... WTF
 
Why is it only in South Africa do Thieves get away stealing our money?
 
What SA need is: A company that don't expect immediate profits (MTN, Vodacom, Telkom), their own undersea cable(s), their own national fibre backbone and their own last-mile connections.

And above all, the value of giving customers the best.

This fanatasy company would save us and would propably the most succesful on the long term.
 
zakdoc89 said:
FFS equip the damn cable for 1.28Tbps................ What's holding them back??
It doesn't make sense.... We need more bandwidth yet we don't use the facilities. Kind of like having a Bentley and the money to run it but using a TAXI instead...... WTF
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The only thing holding them back is sales. They can turn on more capacity quite quickly as people buy bandwidth from them. To date 80Gbps has been sufficient to cater for their clients needs.
 
Madman88 said:
Theyre going to sell it at previously inflated prices to all their existing locked in customers and make a killing. What else?
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Yip, delays in price drops help their cause, thats for sure.
 
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