Charl Norman » seacom http://www.charlnorman.com @cn Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:29:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Seacom cable http://www.charlnorman.com/2009/06/01/seacom-cable/ http://www.charlnorman.com/2009/06/01/seacom-cable/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:41:14 +0000 Charl Norman http://www.charlnorman.com/?p=577 burial-plough-aboard-the-cs-tyco-resolute

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.

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