[AusNOG] Au > South Africa Customer Link

[Bevan Slattery]

It sure is.  It’s December which means SMW3 is down :). Like I said won’t be back up until around PTC in January.  Has been that way for last 3-4 years.  A trend first observed by John Lindsay I think.

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> On 17 Dec 2017, at 7:07 pm, Mark Currie <MCurrie at laserfast.com.au> wrote:
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> AFAIK It’s down currently anyway…
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> http://status.vocus.com.au/view-incident.aspx?IncidentID=387
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> Without Vocus has not updated its incident page?
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> Mark
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> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matt Perkins
> Sent: Monday, 18 December 2017 3:34 PM
> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Au > South Africa Customer Link
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> Ohh. I just was skimming Ausnog email's  and saw SMW3 in two emails and thought Oh no not again.  Im a bit early. 
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> Matt.
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> On 18/12/17 3:29 pm, Bevan Slattery wrote:
> SMW3 now goes down every year around December and comes back up the week before PTC.  Uncanny actually...
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> On 17 Dec 2017, at 6:24 pm, Jonathan Brewer <jon.brewer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 18 December 2017 at 17:19, Brad Peczka <brad at bradpeczka.com> wrote:
> Best routing you'll get at the moment is SEA-ME-WE 3 (when it's up, hah) to Singapore, overland to Malaysia, and then via SAFE to South Africa.
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> SEA-ME-WE 3 also lands in Penang eh? Shouldn't be any reason to get off in Singapore and go overland.
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> You'll need to be choosy about your provider though - given Telstra Global have an interest in both cables, they might be a good first start.
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> There was talk of a consortium called the Australia West Express putting in a cable between Perth and Djibouti via Diego Garcia, who would be the best bet for a low latency Africa link, but they've gone very quiet of late...
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