{"id":13760,"date":"2010-07-14T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-14T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T16:03:00","slug":"eassy-live-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/13760-eassy-live-on-friday.html","title":{"rendered":"EASSy live on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MyBroadband recently reported that the 10,500 km Eastern African Submarine Cable System, better known as <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/13704-EASSy-bandwidth-here-within-weeks.html\">EASSy, will provide South Africa with more international bandwidth<\/a> within the next few weeks. The actual launch of EASSy will in fact happen sooner than expected.<\/p>\n<p>WIOCC CEO Chris Wood announced on Wednesday that the cable will go live on Friday.&nbsp; This launch, Wood said, will be a full commercial launch after three successful testing phases.<\/p>\n<p>Wood said that that the testing started on 19 April, including end-to-end testing of the entire EASSy system, has been completed successfully and that Alcatel which constructed the cable will hand over the cable on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>EASSy will initially light up 30 Gbps (three 10 Gbps wavelengths), with another 80+ Gbps upgrade planned within the next six to twelve months.&nbsp; Wood added that they are also investigating lighting up 40 Gbps wavelengths in future which will significantly bring down the bandwidth cost on the cable.<\/p>\n<p>In a presentation in Sandton, Wood highlighted the robust design of the EASSy system which safeguards it against a single cable break bringing down the whole system.&nbsp; The physical cable itself also has a more robust casing than many of the other submarine cable systems to guard against possible cable breaks.<\/p>\n<p>EASSY will not only provide additional capacity to South Africa, but also provide redundancy to cable systems like SEACOM and SAT-3\/SAFE.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/250012-EASSy-goes-live-on-Friday\">EASSy live on Friday<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EASSy set to go live on Friday, offering 1.4 Tbps capacity and terminating at nine points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}