Undersea cable systems

Holy smokes, it's been 16 hours since my last SEACOM article. I was starting to twitch from withdrawl symptoms. Thank you for satisfying my craving.
 
How about Local cables from Cape Town to Upington, to Johannesburg. We should be in the age where we work from home, skip traffic. Everything happens digitally anyway. Meetings could also shift to digital.
 
OK the cables that don't touch SA are still relevant as they are going to take some of the strain off the SA cables meaning that there is more bandwidth for us to use.
 
aborg said:
hehe, nice website though http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/ gives a good idea of potential, now for execution.
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Something odd here:

SEACOM costs $625 MILLION, and provides a measily 1.28 Tbits.
EASSy costs $265 MILLION and provides 1.4 Tbits.

Seacom costs 3x more, and provides less bandwidth? So is SEACOM really going to make a difference? :sick:

How much bandwidth would local fibre cables provide and what are the costs?

TATA my chance, TATA my millions. How ironic in Afrikaans.
 
Stop with all these dates, throughput rates, politics and other nonsense. You don't even have to write an article. All we want is one liner like this :

Seacom will be done in June and by 30 June 2009 you can expect to pay 2c per MB on DSL and 5c per MB on 3G.
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You know, like they do with the fuel price !
 
chubster said:
Something odd here:

SEACOM costs $625 MILLION, and provides a measily 1.28 Tbits.
EASSy costs $265 MILLION and provides 1.4 Tbits.

Seacom costs 3x more, and provides less bandwidth? So is SEACOM really going to make a difference? :sick:
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If memory serves correctly EASSY runs from South Africa to Sudan with Landings in 6 Countries along the way. SEACOM goes from South Africa (incl. Madagascar, Mozambique, India) to Europe (France/London) - Slightly longer than the rest ;)
 
Gaz{M} said:
Holy smokes, it's been 16 hours since my last SEACOM article. I was starting to twitch from withdrawl symptoms. Thank you for satisfying my craving.
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Don't read the articles if you are going to post things like this. I'm sick of people ranting that there are too many articles on x. JUST DON'T READ THEM!
 
Nickste said:
Don't read the articles if you are going to post things like this. I'm sick of people ranting that there are too many articles on x. JUST DON'T READ THEM!
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I would not mind them if they did not contribute to this whole false hope propoganda.
 
Nickste said:
Don't read the articles if you are going to post things like this. I'm sick of people ranting that there are too many articles on x. JUST DON'T READ THEM!
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Ooooh, somebody forgot to take their happy pills today! :D
 
chubster said:
How about Local cables from Cape Town to Upington, to Johannesburg. We should be in the age where we work from home, skip traffic. Everything happens digitally anyway. Meetings could also shift to digital.
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Yes, that would be awesome, but it's probably not economically viable at this point. There's still a lot that can be done with the existing copper/satellite infrastructure, if only Telkom wasn't so retarded with administering it.
 
Rouxenator said:
I would not mind them if they did not contribute to this whole false hope propoganda.
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False hope propaganda? I suppose we'll find out when Seacom lands. But I certainly HOPE to be calling your pessimism out in a couple of months time :P
Garyvdh said:
Ooooh, somebody forgot to take their happy pills today! :D
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Fair call! I'll lighten up!
 
Wogan said:
Yes, that would be awesome, but it's probably not economically viable at this point. There's still a lot that can be done with the existing copper/satellite infrastructure, if only Telkom wasn't so retarded with administering it.
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We know of reports where MTN/Vodacom/Neotel are placing fibre. But it would be nice to see a progress report on how far they got. When are they planning on reducing prices since now they won't be using Telkom to interconnect? That would be fair to consumers and whistle blowers. ;)

If Telkom is already complaining about LOCAL load (mweb article) how the hell is SEACOM going to reduce or increase CAP size?
 
From article:

Another cable of a great deal of interest to South Africans is the West African Cable System (WACS) which will connect South Africa to Europe. This cable system will have a capacity of 3.84Tbps and is expected to be operational sometime in 2010.
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From Wikipedia:

WACS (West Africa Cable System) is a planned submarine communications cable linking South Africa with the United Kingdom along the west coast of Africa. The cable is expected to land in at least 10 other west African countries.

Broadband Infraco, the South African state-owned telecom infrastructure company holds a significant stake.

The cable is expected to be completed in 2011.
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Does anyone have a website address for more info on this cable?

Is it expected to land in 2010 or 2011? Which one must we believe?
 
w.m said:
Is it expected to land in 2010 or 2011? Which one must we believe?
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On balance of probability, one should generally believe Wikipedia. Unless someone's deliberately trying to corrupt an entry, it'll be updated by anyone who has correct information, and usually with references.
 
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