Instability on SEACOM addressed

While it feels like a lifetime... it has really only been 6 weeks since Seacom went live... so I can understand why it needs some more time.

I am just tired of waiting darn it all to heck! :mad:
 
is it just me or are they blaming telkom there? lmao
 
Neotel, a fixed line company, should be installing cables to their clients. Or am I missing the principle of a fixed line company?
 
I can confirm what the article says. We pick up our Seacom bandwidth at the landing station itself, and we have yet to see a single outage on the cable system, its been very stable.

We have at some fiber breaks on our fiber coming back from the landing station, but each of these had been addressed and repaired within 3 and a half hours of being detected. Fiber breaks however are outside of anyone's control, and the only way to mitigate against them is a completely redundant route.

I can't speak for the stability of any backhaul other than our own to Durban, but as I say, Seacom itself has been very stable, and we can confirm that we have live traffic on the system and immediate term plans to put a lot MORE traffic on the system.
 
Thanks for the feedback Andrew - good to hear that the article reflects what you guys are experiencing. I think many students are waiting for TENET to integrate SEACOM bandwidth!
AndrewAlston said:
I can confirm what the article says. We pick up our Seacom bandwidth at the landing station itself, and we have yet to see a single outage on the cable system, its been very stable.

We have at some fiber breaks on our fiber coming back from the landing station, but each of these had been addressed and repaired within 3 and a half hours of being detected. Fiber breaks however are outside of anyone's control, and the only way to mitigate against them is a completely redundant route.

I can't speak for the stability of any backhaul other than our own to Durban, but as I say, Seacom itself has been very stable, and we can confirm that we have live traffic on the system and immediate term plans to put a lot MORE traffic on the system.
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rpm said:
Thanks for the feedback Andrew - good to hear that the article reflects what you guys are experiencing. I think many students are waiting for TENET to integrate SEACOM bandwidth!
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+1

The current rates at UOVS are sky high! Slow as heck as well. :D This is really cool news :D
 
I've been given permission by UOVS to say that they are infact riding Seacom as of around 11pm on Monday night, and have doubled their access circuit. They are one of the first institutions riding Seacom.

Except even bigger bandwidth upgrades to come by December :) But more than that I unfortunately can't say right now.
 
AndrewAlston said:
I've been given permission by UOVS to say that they are infact riding Seacom as of around 11pm on Monday night, and have doubled their access circuit. They are one of the first institutions riding Seacom.

Except even bigger bandwidth upgrades to come by December :) But more than that I unfortunately can't say right now.
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Cool, thanks for the info! I wondered where the extra 20Mbps came from ;)
 
AndrewAlston said:
We have at some fiber breaks on our fiber coming back from the landing station, but each of these had been addressed and repaired within 3 and a half hours of being detected.
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!?! Isn't that excessive? Even assuming that by a few, you mean three, you've had anything up to 10 hours of down time on your DFA route. That's below 99% availability per month - hardly carrier class - and it's not going to be much good if this is the primary 10 Gbps Internet feed for all the universities in the country. I hope you're planning to get a couple of redundant routes soon - there are several physical fibre routes to choose from.

AndrewAlston said:
Fiber breaks however are outside of anyone's control, and the only way to mitigate against them is a completely redundant route.
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You said it. Actually, you probably need more than two to reach carrier class availability.
 
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!?! Isn't that excessive? Even assuming that by a few, you mean three, you've had anything up to 10 hours of down time on your DFA route. That's below 99% availability per month - hardly carrier class - and it's not going to be much good if this is the primary 10 Gbps Internet feed for all the universities in the country. I hope you're planning to get a couple of redundant routes soon - there are several physical fibre routes to choose from.

You said it. Actually, you probably need more than two to reach carrier class availability.
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Actually this is not correct, the fiber paths outta the landing station to my knowledge are either Neotel or DFA. (unless you count Telkom at the SAFE station). Now, if you want dark fiber, that leaves you with only one option, since Neotel and Telkom sell wavelengths (which are very very expensive). Considering that you would also need not one but 2 10gigs on another path for full redundancy because of interface protection on the cable itself, plus in our case another wave for something else we have up there, those options at this point aren't viable.

It goes without saying that we are investigating redundant options, but at this point the redundancy options for what we actually need are few and far between. There is a huge difference between physical fiber paths, and physical fiber paths you can get access to where you can actually light your own fiber with DWDM Kit :)
 
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