Zaid, Franck: Thanks for the clarification. I forgot to take into account politics.
I suppose it's impossible to obtain a VSAT license if you're transmitting to an out-of-country teleport? The technical support side isn't that difficult if you've got reasonable intelligent people onsite along with spares of *everything*. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Zaid Ali <[email protected]> wrote: > VSAT is resold by Telecom Fiji so you are not going to get anything different > than the Telecom Fiji experience with the added bonus of very few folks using > VSAT in the country and Telecom FIji doing a poor job of operational support > of VSAT. I considered VSAT 12 years ago for connecting the university medical > network I built there but setting aside costs there was really no competence > from Telecom Fiji to manage this service. If something breaks in the earth > station a VSAT tech is flown from Australia and it can take weeks to fix > anything. > > My suggestion is to work with Connect folks and explore redundancy from > either vodafone or digicel as Franck suggested. My experience there has been > building networks in Suva, Lautoka, Nadi. Skeeve can give more advise for all > the fun building in the resort Islands :) > > Zaid > > On Jul 31, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Mike Hale wrote: > >> VSAT *isn't* a waste of time if you're willing to spend the money. >> >> But that, of course, is the key point. Quality VSAT service costs a >> LOT of money (3k-5k per asymetrical megabit). Plus, a quality >> provider will have no problem providing you with BGP. >> >> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Zaid Ali <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Fintel and TFL sleep in the same bed essentially. Fintel is the gatekeeper >>> of the southern cross cable protected heavily by the local government, your >>> typical monopoly setup. Connect is a business unit of TFL. I think you can >>> do the math there. >>> >>> Fintel does not do BGP out of the country (or didn't the last time I was >>> there). Forget VSAT, waste of time. >>> >>> Zaid >>> >>> On Jul 31, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Mike Hale wrote: >>> >>>> It looks like Fintel and TFL are both providers for Southern Cross >>>> cable. That would be your best bet if they can get lines out to you. >>>> >>>> Otherwise, there's always VSAT, but that brings a set of other issues with >>>> it. >>>> >>>> Ping me offlist if you want more detail on the VSAT stuff. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Franck Martin <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> In no particular order >>>>> >>>>> Connect.com.fj aka tfl.com.fj >>>>> Fintel.com.fj >>>>> Vodafone.com.fj (via a 3G stick) >>>>> Digicel.com.fj (via a 2G stick, but also via a wireless backbone network) >>>>> >>>>> If you want to do BGP or IPv6, good luck! >>>>> >>>>> Is that for Fiji Water? ;) >>>>> >>>>> These people have very good operational Internet experience in Fiji. >>>>> >>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothyverma >>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alfred-prasad/0/409/14a >>>>> http://au.linkedin.com/in/skeeve >>>>> >>>>> On 7/31/12 1:14 PM, "Philip Lavine" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Who offeres Internet Bandwidth in Fiji Islands (Lautoka and Yaqara)? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 > -- 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
