TEAMS being cheaper could be the reason Safcom(and everyone else) has 70% of its traffic on it. Again, I don't think anyone routes internet traffic via satellite, the latencies notwithstanding.Since you mentioned unlimited internet, that could point to b/w hoggers. 20% of users on unlimited plan offerings can bring a n/w to its knees, and serious users like you and I suffer terrible latency in the process. Looking at major ISP traffic usage, there's more DL than UL traffic. That could be the reason most mobile telcos would rather concentrate their energies (and money) on HSDPA rather than HSUPA. Also, remember the days when safcom launched 3G? Those good old days when 3g modems were in the hands of the rich few, browsing felt like (heaven?). For those who are lucky enough to fall within safcom's or Orange's HSPA+ 21Mbps areas, they can attest to the wonder. But as experience shows, those 10k/- modems contest with the rest of us outside the HSPA+ areas. Still boils down to what's customer's need Vs. what's business sense. For those with own fiber backhaul (e.g. orange) rolling a 21Mbps site may feel less painful. I still feel reliability tops the priority list, followed by coverage then speed. ./bernard On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:00 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
Consider this: TEAMS is a much much cheaper option because of an owned cable, then why are retail 1Mbps circuits being pegged to Seacom old rates of around 400-600USD? I'd say TEAMS retails offering now should be around 125USD/Megabit which is not happening. On how much redundancy should be purchased is clear : the entire country got affected on Saturday due to shares/dependency on TEAMS and into this week. 60/40 ratios seem realistic not 90/10.
On Safcom 3g being routed via Sat, I've seen this a number of times. Usually around the time when the unlimited offers come into being. But even on fiber the 450-700ms still way too out for any serious use. Seriously, these latencies impact a lot on sensitive apps like e.g. voip.
On Market jargon, here's some figures :
Safcom 3g HSDPA network : Uplink speeds cannot exceed *32KB/sec*, as the technology itself is the hinderance.
Orange 3g HSUPA/+ network : Uplink speeds cannot exceed *120KB/sec*, as the technology itself is the hinderance.
For a start, those two purely indicate the difference between the older and newer network implementation.
Corrections welcome. :-)
Rgds.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Bernard Mwagiru <bmwagiru@gmail.com>wrote:
Just wondering the investment required to have a full redundant TEAMS/SEACOM for an ISP. For some, rhe redundancy exists but not full capacity redundancy. Thats why during the outage, there was great contention at the bottle-neck redundant link
I dont think any ISP worth his salt would re-route all traffic to satellite unless for mission critical systems like Mpesa. So the part about latencies due to satellite re-route is a misnomer.
The part about "safaricom's older technology" still sends tickles :-) ...Someone aptly pointed out the differences between market and tech jargon being thrown about in here.
./bernard
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