Re: Fiji Islands

[Mike Hale <eyeronic.design () gmail com>]

Zaid, Franck:  Thanks  for the clarification.  I forgot to take into
account politics.

I suppose it's  impossible to obtain a VSAT license if you're
transmitting to an out-of-country teleport?

The technical support side isn't that difficult if you've got
reasonable intelligent people onsite along with spares of
*everything*.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Zaid Ali <zaid () zaidali com> wrote:
> 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 () 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
> > >
> > > On Jul 31, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Mike Hale wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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 () 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 () yahoo com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Who offeres Internet Bandwidth in Fiji Islands (Lautoka and Yaqara)?
> > > >
> > > >
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