[kictanet] Seacom goes live?

[Brian Munyao Longwe]

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
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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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