Comments on: Subsea cable cuts hit Africa again, causing major disruption https://techcentral.co.za/fresh-subsea-cable-problems-hit-africa/244479/ Technology News Leader In South Africa Fri, 24 May 2024 12:19:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 By: Ben https://techcentral.co.za/fresh-subsea-cable-problems-hit-africa/244479/#comment-167200 Fri, 24 May 2024 12:19:43 +0000 https://techcentral.co.za/?p=244479#comment-167200 In reply to Charles Butcher.

14 350km cable between South Africa and Europe have way lower latency than a 72 000 km round trip to a Geo sync satellite at 36 000 kms. 40 ms vs 250 ms.

The cost of the copper and fibre cables are also a % fraction of having satellites in orbit that needs transmitters and receivers with limited bandwidth.

]]> By: Charles Butcher https://techcentral.co.za/fresh-subsea-cable-problems-hit-africa/244479/#comment-167162 Mon, 13 May 2024 00:26:12 +0000 https://techcentral.co.za/?p=244479#comment-167162 What’s with this “primitive ” cable technology surely SATELLITE is the way to go

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