[afnog] Connectivity to www.afrinic.net

[Mark Tinka]

On Tuesday 06 July 2010 04:39:54 pm Walubengo J wrote:

> 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.

Such an arrangement would be unusual as TEAMS and SEACOM are 
competitors (although they can co-operate in some areas), 
and submarine Layer 1 service providers typically have no 
visibility into the payload, i.e., if you buy an STM-1, you 
get an STM-1, regardless of what your other circuits are 
(not) doing.

So it's up to the operators purchasing Layer 1 capacity from 
TEAMS and SEACOM to have sufficient bandwidth to ensure that 
if a cut occurred on either system, whatever is left on the 
other can handle the load reasonably well.

Cheers,

Mark.
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