Undersea wrangling

Some investors backing Eassy, including Telkom, have already expressed concern that too much competition in the provision of international bandwidth could undermine the business case for all of the planned systems.
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Poor Telkom :D

Telkom CEO Papi Molotsane has said that he will object strongly if Neotel is also afforded exclusive access to InfraCo's proposed cable system.
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That's a bit rich coming from them lol.
 
Telkom CEO Papi Molotsane has said that he will object strongly if Neotel is also afforded exclusive access to InfraCo's proposed cable system.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA. Papi you are an idiot. Go join Paris with the pushing of wheelbarrows.

Maybe the DoC should stop smoking weed and eating doughnuts on their "turf" and start doing something constructive.
 
With a design capacity of 640 Gbit/s, Eassy can serve the East Africa region for the next two decades.
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:eek:

With 100 Mbit/s connections 640 Gbit/s will only be enough for 6400 simultaneous users.
Typical broad band offerings overseas are in the 10 Mbit/s to 100 Mbit/s region with some already up to 1 Gbit/s.
So in 20 years time we're still going to be sitting with only 6400 users with 100 Mbit/s connections while the rest of the world is in the Gbit/s range?
Either that or we're going to be sitting with millions of users on special 32Kbit/s ADSL "broadband" connections.

What the hell are these idiots thinking? Have they not heard of capacity planning or technological progress?
If you think our telecoms is currently behind the rest of the world just wait and see what it's like in 20 years time. :mad:
 
Paul_S said:
What the hell are these idiots thinking? Have they not heard of capacity planning or technological progress?
If you think our telecoms is currently behind the rest of the world just wait and see what it's like in 20 years time. :mad:
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And resilience... diverse routing?

(and, no that doesn't mean advantages for previously disadvantaged cables:) )
 
SAT-3 capacity is 120 Gbits/s. SAFE capacity is 130Gbits/s.
 
The concern DoC and Telkom shared is funny as DoC is suppose to provide it yet other departments are having to pull of projects to end the digital apartheid.. no guessing who's got deals with whom then eh? Neotel + Irwin and DoC + Telkom
 
XCentricdave said:
And resilience... diverse routing?

(and, no that doesn't mean advantages for previously disadvantaged cables:) )
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My feelings exactly. USA is one country but you can bet they do not have only one friggen cable.

Idiots, 20 years...

20 years ago there was not even an internet yet they belive 640Gb/s will last. I belive that in 20 years time a 640Tb/s (yup, terra) will be seen as basic infrastructure. :eek:

Anyway, I just love the way telscum refuses to change...
 
Some investors backing Eassy, including Telkom, have already expressed concern that too much competition in the provision of international bandwidth could undermine the business case for all of the planned systems.

"Eassy has the support of all the major operators in the East and Southern African region," Telkom says in a written response to the FM. "With a design capacity of 640 Gbit/s, Eassy can serve the East Africa region for the next two decades."
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hahaha what competition?
and 640Gbit/s for two decades.. Wake up!! Technology is moving fast and so is information growing!!!!!!!!!!
You might have to put in a new cable in only one decade!
 
Lots of backpockets in Africa need to be filled to the brim before decisions are made. The more you fill them, the more backpockets there are to fill and one huge black hole has formed because of this. Look at any digital information flow visually represented and Africa doesn't even blimp on the radar.

One would think with the current state of affairs that governments all across the continent would say "come on and invest folks! Free licenses for whoever wants them!"

I guess the leaders in question are to busy swimming in oil, covering themselves in gold and diamonds and counting their bribe money to care.
 
True but in SA we don't expect that kinda thing or at least try not to. I wonder if ivy swims in donuts :p
 
Nah i'd think she sinks....

They've prob had to invent some Anti-Grav device to keep her from contaminating the centre of the earth if she puts her full weight on the ground.
 
Telkom CEO Papi Molotsane has said that he will object strongly if Neotel is also afforded exclusive access to InfraCo's proposed cable system.
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This strongly confirms my suspicions that a parallel universe do exist... in that universe an embattled Telkom is fighting to obtain even a small chunk of bandwidth on monopolized overseas cable... :D
 
antowan said:
Lots of backpockets in Africa need to be filled to the brim before decisions are made....
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Yes and the sad part is how deap the decision makers pockets are: i.e. past experience shows this can take >5 years, if not adequately filled... and of course I'm not counting the time required for sleeping on job and talking ****!....
 
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