Re: SAT-3 / WASC

[S Woodside <sbwoodside at yahoo.com>]

Thanks. I'd like to see a copy of the presentation ... there isn't one
on the CTO site.

I had thought that the "bandwidth barn" in cape town was using SAT-3
bandwidth but it turns out it isn't from a traceroute:

% traceroute www.bandwidthbarn.org
traceroute to www.bandwidthbarn.org (196.7.14.16), 30 hops max, 38 byte
packets
[...]
17  if-2-0-5.bb7.NewYork.Teleglobe.net (207.45.220.211)  68.802 ms 
44.298 ms  43.231 ms
18  ix-4-2.bb7.NewYork.teleglobe.net (216.6.117.2)  43.842 ms  43.552
ms  44.214 ms
19  atm5-0-0sub666.ir1.nyc39.alter.net (196.30.229.14)  44.457 ms 
44.143 ms  44.309 ms

watch the delay suddenly jump from 45 to 600 ms ... that's a satellite
hop:

20  tun0.ir1.cpt1.alter.net (196.30.121.214)  610.738 ms  622.845 ms 
615.733 ms
21  srp1-0-0.gw1.cpt1.alter.net (196.31.249.66)  615.738 ms  610.047 ms
 619.439 ms
22  lit003-2.cust-gw.cpt1.alter.net (196.31.167.106)  617.234 ms 
630.664 ms  631.386 ms
23  196.7.14.131 (196.7.14.131)  641.444 ms  615.073 ms  616.792 ms
24  196.7.14.16 (196.7.14.16)  622.571 ms  620.783 ms  620.871 ms

Is anyone using the SAT-3 for internet traffic yet?

simon

On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 02:02  AM, Badru Ntege wrote:

Hi

Johan Meyer of Telkom South Africa gave a very good presentation on
this at
the recent CTO conference in Ghana he might be able either furnish you
with
a copy  or even answer your questions.  I have copied him on this
mailing.

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S
Woodside
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Subject: SAT-3 / WASC


I'm gathering information on this undersea fibre-optic cable. Here is
what I have so far.

Current capacity: 20 Gbps, upgraded max. capacity: 120 Gbps. Landings
in the following African cities/countries, all coastal: Dakar
(Senegal); Abidjan (Ctte-d'Ivoire); Accra (Ghana); Cotonou (Benin);
Lagos (Nigeria); Douala (Cameroon); Libreville (Gabon); Luanda
(Angola); Melkbosstrand (South Africa).

Map and key: http://www.safe-sat3.co.za/Configuration/Configuration.asp

Who owns the connection in each african country?

Sonatel (Senegal)
Cote d'Ivoire Telecom
Ghana Telecom
OPT Benin
Nigerian Telecommunications Ltd (NITEL)
Camtel (Cameroon)
OPT Gabon
Angola Telecom
Telkom SA Ltd

This is from a list I found. But I also found that UUNET SA owns a
share, and that there is a company in Nigeria (21st Century Technology)
that seems to be installing a SAT-3 based service although NITEL
"remains the signatory".

Using google to find info on SAT-3 is complicated because it's a common
term for "saturday the 3rd" and also, sometimes spelled SAT3. Also,
SAT-3/WASC is South Atlantic Cable 3 / West African Submarine Cable,
the agglomeration of multiple cable projects actually. And, it's
sometimes referred to as SAT-3/WASC/SAFE, because it connects to SAFE,
a cable that goes from South Africa over to south asia.

If anyone can offer corrections or fill in the gaps, I'd appreciate it.
These cables are a fat pipe but currently, it seems that the tap is
closed.

simon


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