@aki I donno what BTS you use but those are really erroneous speeds you are talking about. Back when safaricom were still testing the 3g the hsdpa easily hit 200kBps and maintained it. I know the difference btwn bits n bytes and this is bytes. safaricom also have that "new" hsupa network that allegedly hits 21mbps. Any throttling is by the Telco not the tech. guess the network field is level now. competition will be on the coverage and reliability front. On 2/27/12, 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
-- Regards, Mark Mwangi markmwangi.me.ke