SEACOM testing starts

[ambo]

How disappointing. I want to see massively thick cables that imply massive bandwidth. And the control room needs huge cabinets with blinking lights.

The amount of bling is inversely proportional to the amount that it can do. The most amazing piece of hardware in that entire room will be a dull grey cabinet

/me drools.... engineer p0rn

 

[foX2delta]

yay... not

until seacom slashed my internet bill 6 fold its just another massive lie.

why 6 fold? well simple, our very "lovely" CEO at nevertel said that SAT3 is being charged 6 times more expensive then it should be, so at 6 fold seacom is on par with SAT3 which is all I can hope for (and God please please please please please, after praying for oh sooooooo many times) since this is South Africa.

The cost to deliver broadband to a consumer is not just based on bandwidth,
It is based on actual line, maintence, support, servers, and bla bla bla,

So what i'm saying is a 6X decrease in bandwidth cost can NEVEREVER result in a 6X decrease in consumer cost.

Bandwidth only amounts to a 15 to 25% of the total cost,

I'm by no means saying its right, or bla bla bla,

 

[foX2delta]

WTF, those pictures are it?????
I need more. How thick is a 1.24Tb cable without its steel protection???

Edit,
I seen the title of the picture now, so extremely small

 

[ambo]

I need more. How thick is a 1.24Tb cable without its steel protection???

A pic of the Seacom CEO with a piece of cable. But remember - the bandwidth of the cable has very little to do with the actual cable and very much to do with the equipment in the landing stations and the optical amplifiers that are used on the seabed.

 

[foX2delta]

A pic of the Seacom CEO with a piece of cable. But remember - the bandwidth of the cable has very little to do with the actual cable and very much to do with the equipment in the landing stations and the optical amplifiers that are used on the seabed.

Yeah, and spectrum used.

Thanks but that guy scares me

 

[jetlee]

54% of the GDP comes out of Gauteng... don't think for a second that your little holiday town is even nearly pulling its weight.

you obviously didnt even read that link - according to 2008 stats (last year) it was 33.3% and Cape Town was 14.4% with half the population size

 

[jetlee]

So Gautengers = Capetoians + Vat.....

LOL

 

[longboy]

Seacom is good for us eh, so why don't ya'll jes be quiet, and wait for the price reductions and extra bandwidth that Telkom will give us?

 

[Netguy]

Tremendous - even if prices & caps do not change rapidly, hold thumbs that Neotrash will utilize a large chunk of the Seacom fiber they control to at least keep our downlinks up (for quite some time now their downlink just dies so your need to keep reconnecting).

 

[acidrain]

I heard the universities will be getting a large slice of the capacity. Any truth to this?

 

[Sting]

And when will my monthly account start to decrease????

 

[kilos]

I see seacom have finally joined MyBB with registration as seacom on 22-05-2009

RPM can vouch if its a seacom.mu email address

I just love his connection type it should not be ADSL type but 1.2 Tb/s Big mother load

 

[ic]

I heard the universities will be getting a large slice of the capacity. Any truth to this?

Students and their addiction to porn?

Memory a bit fuzzy, but something about TENET comes to mind, and how tertiary institutions will benefit from dramatically increased bandwidth at dramatically reduced pricing, and how Telkodemonopolies cut off its own feet or something.

 

[Empiricism Philosopher]

I think they should ban downloads at unies and shape each pc for web browsing only for studies.

 

[Scooby_Doo]

UCT is just painfull to do research at, just painfull.

 

[evilsee]

I just love his connection type it should not be ADSL type but 1.8 Tb/s Big mother load

Its 1.28 Tb/s and it splits in Kenya and Tanzania and then goes to France and India via two different cables (650gb/s each)

 

[evilsee]

Students and their addiction to porn?

Memory a bit fuzzy, but something about TENET comes to mind, and how tertiary institutions will benefit from dramatically increased bandwidth at dramatically reduced pricing, and how Telkodemonopolies cut off its own feet or something.

I heard through a friend of a friend of a friend that hey getting 10gb/s on the cable and running there own fibre from Mtinzini to Durban Uni,

 

[AirWolf]

UCT is just painfull to do research at, just painfull.

So you into S & M?

 

[Tns]

So you into S & M?

with telkom anything is possible

 

[Gaz{M}]

I heard through a friend of a friend of a friend that hey getting 10gb/s on the cable and running there own fibre from Mtinzini to Durban Uni,

Correct, 10Gbps for all SA universities to share. But remember that Tenet received a hugely discounted rate for bandwidth on SEACOM (well below their advertised Mbps rates that others will pay).