[kictanet] Seacom goes live?

[Maliti, Tom]

Asante sana Brian.

I also pinged while connected to a 1Gbps SEACOM connection last week in Mombasa and got similar numbers to what you got.

The point is this: we have fiber in Kenya but our service providers are not taking it up, even if it is backup. There have been discussions on this list and other fora about the urgency of fiber for a slew of big and small companies as well just you and I to be able to stream video without interruption or spend less time on email (made possible by high speed connections). Somehow our service providers, with the exception of one, do not get that.

Unless of course there are others who already have.

Tom Maliti
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Munyao Longwe [mailto:blongwe at gmail.com] 
Sent: 29 July 2009 11:24
To: Maliti, Tom
Cc: ke-users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Seacom goes live?

Hi Tom,

SEACOM indeed started providing services last week, however the service being provided is not the *complete* SEACOM project.

I understand that what they lit up is the portion that connects SAT-3 in South Africa upto Mombasa - therefore the international link is going via SAT-3. The *complete* system as per their technical drawings connects from Mumbai, India into Djibouti and thence across the EA seaboard. What we have now is more of capacity on their "backup"
system. A traceroute or 'ping' across their present link reveals a round-trip-time (RTT) of about 140ms-240ms - this is due to the congestion on SAT-3. A real "end-to-end" fiber system should yield RTT of between 7-30ms.... they, nevertheless called it a "launch"

Needless to say, this is much better performance than the satellite that we are used to, thus the excitement is definitely worth it's while - but it will be much more exciting once the true end-to-end services of either SEACOM, TEAMS or others lights up.

Regards,

Brian

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Maliti, Tom<tmaliti at ap.org> wrote:
> Dear Walu,
>
> It is almost a week since SEACOM went live and there does not seem to 
> be that much excitement or response despite the many discussions that 
> have been dedicated to broadband on this list.
>
> Your question at the end of your email is still valid. Or is it 
> possible our varied service providers were not prepared, irrespective 
> of what they say in public? It seems, however, one service provider 
> was ready: Safaricom. Their service has been on fiber since Saturday 
> and anyone who is on their data services has been enjoying the high 
> speeds that have been talked about for years.
>
> Does anyone know of any others?
>
> Tom Maliti
> Correspondent
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> Behalf Of Walubengo J
> Sent: 23 July 2009 17:18
> To: Maliti, Tom
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> Subject: [kictanet] Seacom goes live?
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> http://twitter.com/SeacomLive/
>
> Jst reading from Twitter that Seacom has gone live. Not sure if its 
> only in .TZ though.  Any impact in .KE?  Ama we are still waiting for 
> our very own TEAMS?
>
> Tunajivunia?
>
> walu.
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