Seacom on track for its switch-on

That is great news, but does that mean 29days SA will be recieving the additional throughput, BW, etc. or is that east africa that will be online so to speak?
 
But price cuts as operators prepared for the Seacom threat will make its savings closer to 40%-50% now.
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What price cuts?
 
from 90% cheaper to 40-50% cheaper ... by the end of the year it will be 5% for us on the ground.... Is this gonna turn out to be another "ja bru" story ?
 
There are to many Seacom stories on this board. I will ignore them from now on until something concrete happens.
 
I don't know why the 29 days is important to us. It's not like at mindnight on the 29th day there will be a giant CLICK and suddenly everything gets cheaper and faster.

Prove me wrong, ISPs...
 
Gaz{M} said:
I don't know why the 29 days is important to us. It's not like at mindnight on the 29th day there will be a giant CLICK and suddenly everything gets cheaper and faster.
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If that does happen, it will be end of the world for sure :D
 
I have the same reservations as most of the members that posted before me. I will only really believe it when I see it. The fact that 90% became 40-50% today has made me very sceptical :S

Are any of the ISPs (or even Neotel) involved with the testing, or are these test still 100% handled by SEACOM. I presume that the first few weeks of testing will be the techies from SEACOM playing around with settings etc (what ever they do) to get optimal performance out of their network and hopefully after that they'll include more resellers. Any news on this?

And surely 29 days before commercial go-live the ISPs should have some sort of indication as to what the pricing will look like?

/still holding thumbs
 
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It should be noted that this is a full bandwidth solution from a local point of presence, typically Johannesburg, to an international destination like London. There is hence no additional local bandwidth cost over and above the international rates. Onward bandwidth arrangements have also been finalized Herlihy said.
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So ISP's, don't charge us for the local part.... here its written in black and white!:D
 
Trixanno said:
I have the same reservations as most of the members that posted before me. I will only really believe it when I see it. The fact that 90% became 40-50% today has made me very sceptical :S

Are any of the ISPs (or even Neotel) involved with the testing, or are these test still 100% handled by SEACOM. I presume that the first few weeks of testing will be the techies from SEACOM playing around with settings etc (what ever they do) to get optimal performance out of their network and hopefully after that they'll include more resellers. Any news on this?

And surely 29 days before commercial go-live the ISPs should have some sort of indication as to what the pricing will look like?

/still holding thumbs
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Having been in the landing station myself in the last 2 weeks, I can confirm that things are running on track. The cable itself however when it goes live may not carry much traffic as people prepare their backhaul. I don't know the state of neotel backhaul from the station at the moment, but I can confirm that there will be fiber out of the landing station going to Durban shortly (its busy being pulled in as we speak).

With regards to the testing phase, Seacom does their initial tests and then hands it to the customers who will perform their tests. The problem with these tests is to generate the kind of data needed to test the throughput on a line that size is actually incredibly difficult, and it relies on transit/peering/server capacity on the remote side that can actually carry the data as well. I suspect that we will do our first tests as a customer late June from the landing station itself, using a bunch of notebooks or something.
 
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