Charl Norman is a web entrepreneur behind local social networks 
I attended the Seacom cable launch in Durban with my fellow digirati last week. Some of the key points -
- They had pirate issues when laying the cable
- The cable is 40 days to completion
- 1.28TB/s capacity (our current infrastructure can’t handle these speeds)
- The cable links Africa to Europe and Asia (via the Middle East) - time to move servers to Europe
- The project is fully funded - $600 million (Nedbank and Investec)
Check out the video from the cable station featuring myself, David Perel and Jason Bagley.
Photos from my trip to Silicon Valley for the MIH Tech conference.
I appeared on channel MK TV's new hip hop and car show WOELAG. They interviewed me on our automotive social network Zoopedup.
I have been nominated for ICT Young Entrepreneur of Africa 2008. Now to even be nominated is a great honour for me seeing as last years winner of the award is internationally renowned Vinny Lingham.
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Warning, watching this full video will result in 8m05s of your life that you’ll never get back.
Warning, no sense of humor detected
Hi Charl, any idea how much we will be paying for bandwidth now because of this cable?
Hey Ron, shot for stopping by… bandwidth prices should drop by 50% - although don’t expect this any time soon.. the bandwidth sellers have to buy into SEACOM and offer us the discounts
I think we will experience better speeds before we experience cost discounts
This is the best thing to happen to SA for a long time
It is the start of better times for gamers and browsers in genral.
@thescott.
If you have nothing good to say please be quiet, that vid took some-ones time to put together and all you can say is it’s a waste of time, Go find something better to do other than wasting 30s of your life posting crappy comments
@michael - Definitely, I’m sure the lower latency will be much appreciated by all gamers
HI Charl - nice blog! - re: the sea com cable - understanding that things won’t happen overnight - i DID expect to see a bit of an improvement in speed overnight - I don’t notice any speed increase in downloading this video ! any comments on this ? thanks !