The cable has landed

How does the cable ultimately compete with Telkom's NGN? Can anyone shed some light please?
 
Its not meant to compete with Telkom's NGN at all..

Seacom is an edge route from a provider network to other providers networks...

Neotottie's NGN and Telkoms NGN need to be compared....
 
Thestealth said:
How does the cable ultimately compete with Telkom's NGN? Can anyone shed some light please?
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Neotel owns the landing station and is partnering in building the links into the national grid.... the main cable from Joburg to the coast will be completed soon. Telkom has bought space on Seacom, but I'm not sure how they are hooking into the grid. The problem is... without LLU it will be hard for the other providers to actually bring this extra bandwidth to us, esp. current ADSL customers. They can only offer it in terms of current products.... if you can access those other products. Telkom will only respond slowly if they see those other products eating into their ADSL user base... and that is unlikely because most customers prefer the low latency and "stability" of ADSL.

If the other providers really want to compete, they need to bring another fixed line product to market quickly.

LLU, is the government's last way of holding onto the Telkom pie.
 
< whhooooosssshhh > < hhhhhaaaaaaaaa > < aaaahhhhh > great, I can finally breathe again. :D
 
Garyvdh said:
Neotel owns the landing station and is partnering in building the links into the national grid.... the main cable from Joburg to the coast will be completed soon. Telkom has bought space on Seacom, but I'm not sure how they are hooking into the grid. The problem is... without LLU it will be hard for the other providers to actually bring this extra bandwidth to us, esp. current ADSL customers. They can only offer it in terms of current products.... if you can access those other products. Telkom will only respond slowly if they see those other products eating into their ADSL user base... and that is unlikely because most customers prefer the low latency and "stability" of ADSL.

If the other providers really want to compete, they need to bring another fixed line product to market quickly.

LLU, is the government's last way of holding onto the Telkom pie.
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Thanks Gary. I just get a little confused with all the hype and happiness about a new cable landing, and Telkom's TV add with all the kids. I think I was somehow trying to connect the two. My bad ;)
 
Even i thought the cable will be huge... Guess most of us thought that. Mmmmmh, if telkom got space on seacom, and the sat-3 cable becomes vacant as all the other isp move over to seacom.. Am i wrong to assume that telkom customers mite actually get some stability with regards to line loads and caps. For example when i koined telkom over 2years ago the monthly threshhold was way over 15GB and you only payed for 3GB. That was when adsl was at a low in the country.

Now with more people on broadband more counter measures had been put in place so that telkom could cope with the increase in users. Now that seacomm has landed though not online and companies (correct me if i am wrong) such as mweb, cybersmart, is, axcess, etc moving off sat-3 to seacom, free up telkom's own network. Making there offering more appealing due to the stress on thier network being reduced and more stable.

A bit redundant i know, but i am trying to explain what i meant.
 
Nigerian carrier Globacom has announced that its Glo-1 submarine cable linking Nigeria to the United Kingdom is nearing completion.
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I just thought I would look up who the GLO-1 cable is for...

The news report, somewhat confusingly, describes the cable as having the capacity of 32 STM-64s which is 320 gigabits/s
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It still looks to me like we're being had in SA with our broadband offers. Maybe a move to Nigeria is in order. (Although I cannot for the life of me find their prices on thier website)

Sources: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-171402100.html
http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/our-work/blogs/glo-1-added-undersea-cables
 
SEACOM has Landed

cavedog said:
This is a news article from Richards Bay's local news paper "The Observer"
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All the way from India - The cable carrying the few fibres no thicker than a human hair and that serves as the intercontinental information link, was brought ashore at Mthunzini's beach on Saturday for the final linkup. The cable was hauled ashore from the cable laying ship 'Teneo' [in the pictures backround]. Inset: Information highway in the palm of a hand. Hans Swanepoel from Subtech holds the cable that will carry information to the African continent.
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Hi ,

Please can you supply that link

Went to newspaper Zululand Observer

But cannot find my way around there.


Found this

Zululand

I am actually quite suprised. :eek:

SEACOM lands at Mtunzini and all we get is one terrible grainy image :confused:

With all the hype here I expected nothing less than Zoooma and Poisn Ivy wading in the surf pullng the cable ashore :confused:

WHERE are all the Media BANNER headlines ??????


the INCREDULOUS one.
 
The landing was scheduled for the end of this month, I think the early landing has caught everyone by surprise. Well done Seacom. Expect some nice pics and articles in the next two weeks.
 
edg3 said:
It still looks to me like we're being had in SA with our broadband offers. Maybe a move to Nigeria is in order.
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The initial quoted speed is not always the final speed, capacity can be upgraded in some cases by adding more wavelenghts via technology like WDM & DWDM.
 
Without most people noticing, South Africa is moving forward. Unfortunately, I can't say it's thanks to the government. I have to say, a lot of good things happen when government stays away.
 
Mercurious said:
Without most people noticing, South Africa is moving forward. Unfortunately, I can't say it's thanks to the government. I have to say, a lot of good things happen when government stays away.
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+1

The less regulation there is the better. Only thing that should be regulated are business practises within law.
 
ponder said:
+1

The less regulation there is the better. Only thing that should be regulated are business practises within law.
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Only if you define which industries, because that is exactly what has been going on in the telco sector and I haven't seen any improvement!
 
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