@ Wash.. The realist in me says that nothing works perfectly as expected, no matter how well you prepare for it. Ask any developer, any network designer, anybody who does the configurations.. very few things work as expected from day one. It is a learning process. There will come a situation, a glitch,and Murphys law. Imagine you were to terminate that contract with Teleglobe/newskies last month, because seacom was to go live then. Then Teleglobe/newskies tell you that they can give you contract for a minimum of 3/6/12 months.. really? Anyway, all that said - i would still have expected most operators who have bought capacity on seacom to have been testing it since last week. Am not excusing that they have not turned it on. They ought to have done that, if they bought capacity. All am saying is that you shouldnt expect a stable reliable superfast connection on the fiber from day one. Tito. 2009/7/24 Odhiambo ワシントン <odhiambo@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Njoroge Tito <titonjoroge@gmail.com>wrote:
@ Aki..
It may be a big deal that fiber is finally here, but.. i think stability is never achieved the day of the launch. It takes time to iron out technical/operational/other issues that may not have been foreseen, especially with the live network.
@Tito,
Sorry but I have to ask this: What is it that the operators had to learn on the day the cable was switched on that they did not learn during the numerous training sessions they attended? Did they not already know how to connect the equipment? How to route the traffic? While I do agree with Riyaz that it was a :meda launch:, I, just like Aki, still fail to understand why operators did not go live. I should have thought that it would be something like "guys, tomorrow we terminate services with Teleglobe and switch to NewSkies". I have seen that done several times before. Why couldn't they do this for the fiber? Wasn't it just another "change of provider", if I may ask?
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