Fiji Islands

Wed Aug 1 01:37:41 UTC 2012

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 <zaid at zaidali.com> 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
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>> On Jul 31, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Mike Hale wrote:
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>>> 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 <fmartin at linkedin.com> 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" <source_route at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Who offeres Internet Bandwidth in Fiji Islands (Lautoka and Yaqara)?
>>>> 
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