Focussing on telecommunications on the Falkland Islands
My apologies for a long post but it’s a complex subject – please stick with it but I have split it into Parts 1 and 2, Right up front I need to declare my strong interest in this subject. I was a Board Advisor and a shareholder of a company called Actual Experience who monitored the Quality of Experience of […] Read More
In the last post The enigma of monthly Internet usage quota, I took a look at an issue that will have a major impact on the deliverability of the subject of this post – the vision of a local high-speed IP public network or ‘cloud’. The conclusion of this post stated: “The creation of this capability is key to ameliorating […] Read More
In my last post on OpenFalklands I looked at the current status of Falkland Islands satellite capacity which dictates the quality of experience of using the Internet in the Falkland islands. Another factor that directly affects experience is the use of a monthly quota or allowance to cap the amount of Internet bytes that can be downloaded. I’d like to […] Read More
In the previous two posts on OpenFalklands I focused SAEx submarine cable connectivity to St Helena as a successful St Helena Government program and the possibility of a submarine cable to the Falkland Islands by extending a Chilean Fibra Optica Austral cable. It is fair to say that the latter is probably not achievable but who knows how things can […] Read More
In my last post, St Helena’s submarine cable, I talked about the SAEx1 submarine cable that is going to connect St Helena to the rest of the world in 2020 using a 200Gbit/s link. In this post I’ll talk about a fibre-optic cable that is lies much closer to the Falkland Islands – Chile’s Fibra Optica Austral initiative. In February […] Read More
13th June 2019 update Of course, not all cable projects succeed. The South Atlantic Express (SAex), would be one of the first direct links between Africa and South America, and connect remote islands like St. Helena along the way. But SAex has struggled with funding and currently sits in limbo. Cinia and MegaFon hope to avoid a similar fate. Source: IEEE Spectrum 15th May […] Read More