On Nov 19, 2007 5:02 PM, Hari Kurup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The SEACOM cable talked about will have a landing point in SA and east
africa enroute to Italy via the red sea.
If there are a majority of African investors and other restrictions!
see story pasted below
So we have this one:
Also interesting is the expected effect on princing:
The cable, according to Dr Ham Mukasa Mulira, Uganda's Minister for
ICT, will boost broadband connectivity in sub-Saharan Africa and
reduce international connectivity costs by two-thirds.
That is about 60% more ambitious than SEACOM.
2
On Nov 26, 2007 12:29 PM, Reinier Battenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also interesting is the expected effect on princing:
Well it depends on who is crunching the numbers.
Kenyan gov't says the cost will be 500 USD per MN/s per month.
UUNet KE says don't count on that.
The cable,
McTim wrote:
So we have this one:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1505911175;fp;16;fpid;1
This one is for connecting african governments for online education and
tele-medicine, not for public internet.
--
Hari
___
LUG mailing list
Reinier
I think 20% less cost for us the clients is a good start. We have a big
burden currently which if even revised by 5%, many of us would jump up
in excitement. I am not worried bse when the other cables get completed,
the drop will be for real. See what Warid and Hits Telecoms' entry is
Yes, i agree that a decrease in prices would be very nice. The idea of these
cables however seems to be to overcome the 'digital divide'
According to some guy at lucent, Moore's law is also true for data per fiblre
optic. Only not with a 18 months cycle, but a 9 months one.
High definiton television.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdtv
requiring more more more bandwith.
On Monday 19 November 2007 15:02:41 Wire James wrote:
what is HDTV ?
Wire
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 12:56 +0300, Reinier Battenberg wrote:
Yes, i agree that a decrease in prices would be very
Wire James wrote thus on 11/19/07 4:02 PM:
what is HDTV ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdtv
eb
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
___
LUG mailing list
LUG@linux.or.ug
http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug
%LUG is
Reinier Battenberg wrote thus on 11/19/07 4:11 PM:
High definiton television.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdtv
requiring more more more bandwith.
Since we are now talking about video and broadcasting, the term
bandwidth needs to be correctly used :)
yes, hdtv requires about 37MHz while
Too tempting:
HDTV is so amazing my cat will sit and watch National Geographic for hours!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2glS2HyVyqo
On Monday 19 November 2007 15:14:42 Ernest - (AfriNIC) wrote:
Wire James wrote thus on 11/19/07 4:02 PM:
what is HDTV ?
All very nice but anyone any idea what extra capacity is going to be put in
SA to accommodate the extra traffic it will get from East Africa?
Sa only has fiber going to the Seychelles and beyond and to the west of
Africa ongoing to Europe. Rumors say it's already at its max in both
directions.
Reinier Battenberg wrote:
Too tempting:
HDTV is so amazing my cat will sit and watch National Geographic for hours!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2glS2HyVyqo
Cats give up the ability to see fine detail and rich colors in exchange
for the ability to see in the dark.
So HDTV may not
On Monday 19 November 2007 20:28, Ernest - (AfriNIC) wrote:
yes, hdtv requires about 37MHz while PAL (what we use in
UG) requires about 4MHz (but i'm sure you meant data
rates - in which case, HDTV needs approx 1GB/s)
Not quite.
Depending on several factors (resolution, interlacing or
The SEACOM cable talked about will have a landing point in SA and east
africa enroute to Italy via the red sea.
--
HAri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All very nice but anyone any idea what extra capacity is going to be put in
SA to accommodate the extra traffic it will get from East Africa?
Sa
To: Linux Users Group Uganda
Subject: Re: [LUG] another cable coming
The SEACOM cable talked about will have a landing point in SA and east
africa enroute to Italy via the red sea.
--
HAri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All very nice but anyone any idea what extra capacity is going to be put in
SA
15 matches
Mail list logo
