[kictanet] Seacom goes live?

Wed Jul 29 12:28:41 EAT 2009

Just a modem from Safaricom or use your phone (either 3G - better - or
EDGE)

Michael

CEO

Safaricom Limited

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From: kictanet-bounces+mjoseph=safaricom.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+mjoseph=safaricom.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke]
On Behalf Of warigia bowman
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:19 PM
To: Michael Joseph
Cc: ke-users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Seacom goes live?

Dear Brian and Michael 

So, what is the best way for the common mwananchi to take advantage of
these higher speeds? Will we experience them if we have the small dial
up through safaricom or do we need new equipment. 

Sincerely, Warigia

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Brian Munyao Longwe
<blongwe at gmail.com> wrote:

As usual Michael, you are right! I did a traceroute  (connected on
Onecom/Safaricom)

As you can see it hops into London and gets onto AS6453 in London
which belongs to Tata.

Brian

BryoNet:~ macbook$ traceroute www.yahoo.com
traceroute to www.wa1.b.yahoo.com (69.147.76.15), 64 hops max, 40 byte
packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  1.302 ms  0.689 ms  0.677 ms
 2  41-203-221-209.onecom.co.ke (41.203.221.209)  15.363 ms  4.641 ms
4.172 ms
 3  41-203-216-12.onecom.co.ke (41.203.216.12)  20.489 ms  6.503 ms
3.367 ms
 4  41-203-220-17.onecom.co.ke (41.203.220.17)  5.089 ms  16.715 ms
5.910 ms
 5  41-203-220-2.onecom.co.ke (41.203.220.2)  5.636 ms  4.041 ms  4.873
ms
 6  196.201.222.17 (196.201.222.17)  12.243 ms  4.722 ms  4.986 ms
 7  if-12-1-3.mcore3.ldn-london.as6453.net (195.219.195.189)  238.321
ms  183.554 ms  187.807 ms
 8  if-5-0-0-903.core3.aeq-ashburn.as6453.net (195.219.195.154)
272.541 ms  274.972 ms  279.118 ms
 9  ix-3-0-9.core3.aeq-ashburn.as6453.net (216.6.51.30)  287.170 ms
281.733 ms  277.584 ms
10  ae2-p140.msr1.re1.yahoo.com (216.115.108.57)  272.322 ms
ae1-p150.msr2.re1.yahoo.com (216.115.108.21)  276.266 ms  269.433 ms

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Michael
Joseph<MJoseph at safaricom.co.ke> wrote:
> I think they are using Tata from Mumbai but I may be wrong. Also
comprehensive tests are not complete but nevertheless it gave us an
opportunity to experience much faster speeds which can only get better.
>
> Michael
>
> CEO
> Safaricom Limited
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kictanet-bounces+mjoseph=safaricom.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+mjoseph <mailto:kictanet-bounces%2Bmjoseph>
=safaricom.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Maliti, Tom
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 11:46 AM
> To: Michael Joseph
> Cc: ke-users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Seacom goes live?
>
> 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
> Correspondent
> East Africa Bureau
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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
>> East Africa Bureau
>>
>> Direct line: +254 20 285 9109
>> Office line: +254 20 285 9000
>>                    +254 734 555 252
>> Fax: +254 20 2724726
>> Mobile +254 733 641 984
>>
>>
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>> [mailto:kictanet-bounces+tmaliti <mailto:kictanet-bounces%2Btmaliti>
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>> Behalf Of Walubengo J
>> Sent: 23 July 2009 17:18
>> To: Maliti, Tom
>> Cc: skunk; ke-users; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
>> Subject: [kictanet] Seacom goes live?
>>
>> 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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