Commenting on the last portion of your email Donald
I heard rumors that this is one of many following attempts to Market Low Orbit Sat solutions while many countries in Africa have not provided licenses (yet).
Also heard it was due to a sea attack (but news captured that in a different continent) on the same day.
IMHO the root cause of such outages should be inspected as we deserve to stay connected, we as ISP’s and our clients continue to suffer from such outages while it comes to the benefit of the Satellite Services.
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On 4 Jun 2024, at 15:55, Ron B via zanog-discuss wrote:
> The whole continent of Africa has connectivity dependant on a point 250km
> off Cote d’Ivoire
No there are other cables on the west coast as well as the east coast of Africa that continue to connect Southern Africa.
We just talking context of ZA here, there are the same and different cables that connect other african countries.
> and no causation about why this was deployed in this
> manner or how it’s been rectified. The immediate causation of rock falls
> doesn’t correlate to the terrain or repairs conducted.
Please share references for this statement
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> The canyon at Cote d’Ivoire is 20km across the continental shelf.
I’m not going to look this up, but ok.
> The
> repair ships never entered this area.
Please share the data
> From the drop off on the shelf it
> has an offset starting 20km west that has been covered over by
> sedimentation flows during the past million years. Basically, from the
> continental shelf outwards the terrain is flat.
references?
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> The repair ships operated a further 20km east, from 100km out going as far
> out as 250km in a relatively straight line. Thus, about 40km east of the
> ancient remnants of the canyon.
Have to admit im not an archaeologist or nautical surveyor (if that is a term) expert, so please can you help educate us a little and explain this.
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> Although there are no route maps for the cables it seems SAT3 runs 100km
> parallel off the coast and WACS is at about 250km parallel off the coast.
Right, so no maps but you seem to know where they are
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> The Equiano cable is still further out but at what distance is unknown.
But it seems there is a lot of data about all the other cable systems from the above statements and the geological events that may or may not have caused issues.
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> This area has no similar flooding as the Congo where the river causes up to
> 1000km of high velocity flows off the coast.
Eish, Im just an internet plumber so cannot comment on ocean topography and sea conditions and hydro…. whatever the term is for the movement of water and earth, but i know a little about maps and know the congo is not in a similar area to the area is question so probably doesnt have similar flooding.
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> So why did this happen and why won’t it happen again?
I say it happened because of climate change and it will happen again because there very well, may be forces out there that want to cut the internet cables that feed Africa to keep it a dark continent…. that might not be far from some truths when it comes to sabotage of subsea infrastructure.
my 2 cents
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