60ms cross continent
Mark Tinka
mark.tinka at seacom.com
Wed Jul 8 13:33:41 UTC 2020
On 8/Jul/20 15:21, Paul Nash wrote:
> When we started TICSA (Internet Africa/Verizon/whatever), we went with a 9600 bps satellite link to New Jersey specifically because the SAT-2 fibre had just been installed and traffic was being moved off satellite. The satellite folk were getting *very* nervous, and gave us a heavily discounted service provided we had a 5-year contract that specified that they service *had* to run over satellite. Job insurance.
>
> As our requirements grew, we added fibre connections. Eventually the telco canceled the satellite connection as they were starting to focus on VSAT.
There's no denying... they well-and-truly made their money :-).
If I think back to what we paid for 192Kbps up, 320Kbps down, it may
make all the grown folk on this list cry in :-).
Mark.
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