[afnog] Connectivity to www.afrinic.net

[Walubengo J]

Mark,

TEAMS is up. But it appears most providers have shared loading on both.  Unfortunately, they dont seem to have commercial agreements btwn TEAMs and SEACOM that would allow TEAMS to automatically absorb capacity destined over SEACOM in the event of failure.

In the end, customers get crowded(congested) over the pre-purchased and therefore restricted TEAMs and/or Satellite bandwidth...

walu.


--- On Tue, 7/6/10, Mark Tinka <mtinka at globaltransit.net> wrote:

From: Mark Tinka <mtinka at globaltransit.net>
Subject: Re: [afnog] Connectivity to www.afrinic.net
To: "Walubengo J" <jwalu at yahoo.com>
Cc: "SM" <sm at resistor.net>, "Graham Beneke" <graham at neology.co.za>, afnog at afnog.org
Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2010, 12:17 PM

On Tuesday 06 July 2010 04:08:46 pm Walubengo J wrote:

> @Graham,
> 
> True that  - SEACOM undersea cable reported a failure
>  between Mombasa and Mumbai.

It's unfortunate that half-way through the year, the shorter 
west-bound path (through North Africa to Europe) has not 
been established, although that would not have necessarily 
prevented this problem if the repeater failure is much 
closer to Mombasa than Mumbai (the network diagram at 
http://www.seacom.mu/network/network.html doesn't tell where 
Segment 9 is).

>  In .KE we can hardly  reach
>  most destinations let alone afrinic.net ;-)

Are TEAMS down too, or are fewer providers using them?

Cheers,

Mark.



      
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