SAT-3 cable fault details

Is this is the moment we get to see how fickle Telkom's main clients are...

Is it the moment to test how much like a house of cards Telkom is...

(Has this happened before and we have just not known?)
 
Have you read the article? Does not appear so as you are seriously misinformed per your posts.
 
Ditto on that - looks like commenting for the sake of commenting.

I notice that a lot on these forums - people emotionally react and post stuff without really thinking about what they are posting. Emotions aren't going to help - reasonable reactions and understanding what is happening by actually reading more about the topics at hand and offering constructive debate...

Oh hang on - I forgot for just a second there that I'm on the Internet... and that's the kind of stuff tends to predominate...
Not to mention that everything you read on the Internet must be true... because its on the Internet...

Rant on, netizens... rant on!
 
It's just the cable connecting Benin to the main SAT-3 "pipe" so to speak. So if it breaks, the main pipe is still fine, hence we are unaffected
 
Here's a question for all you fibre cable fundis. If Telscum "upgrades" the SAT3 cable from 120GBs to 360GBs does that mean all it's partners up the west cost also have to upgrade their equipment. I would assume the new router "cards" will all need to be the same so that they can all talk to each other. What happens if one of the parties doesn't want to do the upgrade?

Ponderous man, real ponderous.
 
lol, while I was reading this I kept thinking, "I wonder if Telkom sabotaged themselves so they can get a press-release out to the general public showing South African's how awesome their fall-back plans are in case of disaster on SAT3 and that Seacom doesn't have one"

Does anyone remember a few years back when Telkom had a major failure and internet slowed down to a super crawl for a few days (or was it weeks, felt like weeks). Their SAFE/SAT2 cables helped absolutely nothing back then. Why would it make a difference now?
 
MadMailMan said:
Here's a question for all you fibre cable fundis. If Telscum "upgrades" the SAT3 cable from 120GBs to 360GBs does that mean all it's partners up the west cost also have to upgrade their equipment. I would assume the new router "cards" will all need to be the same so that they can all talk to each other. What happens if one of the parties doesn't want to do the upgrade?

Ponderous man, real ponderous.
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Telkom owns a majority share in SAT3. I'm not sure if the other landing stations via the cable are also controlled by Telkom (it appears that way from the article, however, they partner with local telecoms companies for maintenance)... I assume they do. Which would mean that they'd have to upgrade all the landing stations as well if they'd like to get the benefit of the new frequency.

I assume (a lot though) that they'll start with South Africa.

Why Telkom waited till now to do the upgrade is beyond me. Possibly to keep pricing on the cable inflated artificially. I'm pretty sure this technology existed since 2005...
 
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