EASSy plans to double capacity in 2011

Anyone know which ISP is using this cable systems in SA?
 
I am not aware of any outages on the SEACOM cable in the first four months either, those came later, they also had more customers after four months than EASSy has as far as I am aware, and consumer prices started coming down as a direct result. The same cannot be said of EASSy. This smacks of a PR release and has little substance.
 
I agree, wheres the similar splash from Eassy that Seacom made when they launched?
 
remus786 said:
I agree, wheres the similar splash from Eassy that Seacom made when they launched?
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Eassy is a different model - its a consortium system owned by telcos, so they don't need to make such a splash. These telcos are using the capacity, either for their own international connectivity or bundling it up into their wholesale, business or consumer services. The announcement implies that they are using up their capacity faster than they expected so they need to light more. I think this is good news for all of us. The price of international connections is still coming down and there's oversupply of capacity, meaning ISPs will increasingly buy on more than one international system. With WACS coming too, events like today's Seacom outage will soon stop being noticed.
 
Very poorly written article, lacks important information, and seems to be more like an advert for EASSy.

IdlePhaedrus said:
I am not aware of any outages on the SEACOM cable in the first four months either, those came later, they also had more customers after four months than EASSy has as far as I am aware, and consumer prices started coming down as a direct result. The same cannot be said of EASSy. This smacks of a PR release and has little substance.
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+1. My thoughts exactly!

Scooby_Doo said:
Did I miss something, they increasing lit capacity from what to what?
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+1. Again, my thoughts exactly!

C'mon MyBB, you can do better than this!
 
iCubed.Saajid said:
Very poorly written article, lacks important information, and seems to be more like an advert for EASSy.
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It's not an article. It's the press release from EASSy, verbatim. Blame MyBB if you object to press releases being reproduced.

Most people seem to be missing the point about this. There's more information in this release than one normally ever sees from a consortium of carriers. When last did you see anything similar from SAT-3, for example? The implications of this upgrade are enormous. Most consortium systems don't upgrade until at least two years after they are built. In the "good old days", this was how various monopoly incumbent carriers fixed prices in their markets (Telkom on SAT-3, anyone?). What this upgrade shows is that there is real competition in the market, and both EASSy (or rather, the carriers invested in EASSy) and SEACOM are having to upgrade and reduce their prices to gain market share. Of course, EASSy is not just made up of incumbent carriers. There are some incumbents, but there are also parties like WIOCC (operating like a carriers' carrier) and Neotel, who lack the incumbent mindset. This is great news for EASSy, but it's even better news for buyers of international capacity.
 
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I wish I could get excited about this, but the price of my connection through Telkom remains unreasonably high :(
 
iCubed.Saajid said:
Very poorly written article, lacks important information, and seems to be more like an advert for EASSy.



+1. My thoughts exactly!



+1. Again, my thoughts exactly!

C'mon MyBB, you can do better than this!
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Ok found it :D EASSy plans to double capacity in 2011 . aka 3.84*2 :D
 
FlatspinZA said:
If you guys want an informed article about what cables we're currently using, see this: http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/

I think it was posted on these forums before.
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Thanks. I have seen that link, but it does get updated periodically.

I am interested that the I-ME-WE cable is shown as being operational since 2009:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-ME-WE

This should provide an alternative to SEA-ME-WE-4, but there is no indication that SEACOM is using this as an alternative route?
 
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