Aki, So should we also expect a whole flurry of new software developers with new apps by the weekend ? ;) How many new developers do you think this will bring ? e-commerce sites ? I wait ... as I have been for the past several years. During which time BTW - the price of a 256k has fallen from 25000 shs to 3000shs. Is that still beyond the reach of techies ? Every once in a while you get pleasantly surprised, but where is the revolution ? Seacom just turned on the capacity yesterday. Circuits on the fiber couldn't be mapped before yesterday, and they are still doing that slowly. Testing has also not been completed fully, and most of it begins from yesterday. Interconnect points are just getting ready. IP routes take time to propagate as well, so expect some days for that. It's really a media launch, and over the next week you should expect people to slowly start turning on the capacity. Even the guys who have it, are testing before they plug it straight into their networks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "aki" <aki275@googlemail.com> To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 7:35:20 AM GMT +03:00 Iraq Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Benchmarking Seacom @ Hi David and all, I appreciate all the comments and with all due kind respect to everyone, I'm sorry to tell you that I see things much more differently. The issue of speeds, latencies, jitter, bandwidth etc is irrelevant, that comes with the fiber naturally. What I see is a terrible failure on our part. What I'm surprised though is that we accept this failure as a norm and for people who are understand networks etc to see other professionals accept the norm is terribly disturbing. However, what we should be asking ourselves is this " What did we NOT expect? ". For whatever reasons that entire community of telcos, network operators , service providers choose not to go simulatenous with the launch is upto them. For me, the writing is on the wall, clear. " DAY 2 of international fiber launch and 99% of kenya is still in the dark ages of the satellite era! " An excellent start and with plenty of excuses to back it up. Anway, Im on a timeout so will leave it there................................... Best Rgds, Aki. _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general