New Cable To Speed Up Data Transfers From North America

[RubbaJohnny]

This may explain why its al gone Tots up

THAILAND TRAVEL NEWS: People doing business or living in Asia should soon notice a dramatic increase in speed for internet communications between the region and the US when the $US550 million Asia-America Gateway (AAG) comes into operation next month.

The project entered the construction phase in 2006 with AiTi of Brunei Darussalam, CAT Telecom (Thailand), PLDT (Philippines), REACH (Hong Kong), StarHub (Singapore), Telekom Malaysia (Malaysia) and VNPT (Vietnam) signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for its construction.

The AAG comprises a 20,000km (about 12,400 miles) optical fibre cable network stretching from Malaysia to the West Coast of America, via Guam and Hawaii, with branches to Singapore, Thailand, Brunei and Vietnam

The cable is one of the longest undersea cable rollouts in history, but will shorten the route for data from Asia to America, avoiding some of the wolds’ areas most prone to seismic activity in the process.

Poor quality communications in the region has been an ongoing problem that has affected development, but with a design capacity of 1.92 terabit/s the international route should have sufficient capacity to meet the regions ever increasing demand.

By John Le Fevre

Thailand Travel News July 25, 2009

Any ideason how to get a reliable service

If we can get satelite footprint from Agila etc are there options beyond the realm into the stars?

[cdnvic]

Topic re-titled in English, non-English posts removed.

[CobraSnakeNecktie]

let us all pray they actually pay for some of the bandwidth so users in Thailand will stop pulling their hair out.

Is there any indication of how much bandwidth CAT is actually going to subscribe to?

[ukrules]

Hopefully this will make a big difference the international bandwidth speed isn't so good on normal home based internet connections.

[wpcoe]

Not wanting to drift off topic too far, but just now, by clicking on the "Goto first unread" icon for this thread in the index sent me to the mict.co.th page. Seven times! Any other thread I could click and go right to the first unread post. The only way I could get here to post this was to click the thread name itself, and not the "Goto first unread" icon.

Increasingly over the past few weeks, I get directed to the mict page, but usually re-clicking on the original link a second time (or re-typing the URL) will get me the page. This thread was incredibly difficult, though. I would try a couple times, then try another thread (which works) try this one a few more times. Seven times!

[dttk0009]

I stand by my prediction that we won't see an increase in speed or bandwidth. In fact, I predict a new 15Mbit package deal and the resulting over-saturation and clogging of Thailand's current bandwidth limitations. Chances are the internet will actually be slower.

[Phil Conners]

Some traceroutes US > Thailand now go through Malaysia. If that is the new link they're obviously still working on it cuz there is a lot of packet loss in that segment of the traceroute. Hopefully when they get all the bugs ironed out it will work better.

9 linx-ro01.tm.net.my (195.66.224.47) 305.209 ms 58.27.106.102 (58.27.106.102) 315.320 ms linx-ro01.tm.net.my (195.66.224.47) 306.970 ms
10 * * 58.27.106.110 (58.27.106.110) 312.690 ms
11 58.27.106.106 (58.27.106.106) 311.033 ms tm.net.my (58.26.87.82) 421.358 ms 421.287 ms
12 58.27.106.110 (58.27.106.110) 312.865 ms * *
13 203.190.250.206 (203.190.250.206) 418.318 ms 419.696 ms tm.net.my (58.26.87.82) 418.565 ms
14 * 203.190.250.214 (203.190.250.214) 421.719 ms 203.190.250.130 (203.190.250.130) 422.104 ms
15 (203.113.13.10) 423.538 ms * *
16 203.190.250.214 (203.190.250.214) 422.916 ms (203.113.13.121) 394.993 ms 394.949 ms
17 * (203.113.13.10) 422.985 ms 203.114.126.74 (203.114.126.74) 394.253 ms
18 * * (203.113.13.121) 394.754 ms
19 118.174.232.241.adsl.dynamic.totbb.net (118.174.232.241) 397.493 ms 203.114.126.74 (203.114.126.74) 389.249 ms 390.816 ms
20 118.174.225.53.adsl.dynamic.totbb.net (118.174.225.53) 397.028 ms 118.174.232.242.adsl.dynamic.totbb.net (118.174.232.242) 397.035 ms 118.174.225.53.adsl.dynamic.totbb.net (118.174.225.53) 397.117 ms
21 * * 118.174.232.241.adsl.dynamic.totbb.net (118.174.232.241) 395.892 ms

[moskito]

i really WILL, but CANT belive it. My connection was so terrible slow during the past weeks its like working with a 56k Modem ten years ago.

Until now my PingPlotter doesnt show me any RouteChangings.

You can download and use the PingPlotter freeware programm for free here, www.pingplotter.com please check for yourself, its an easy to handle program

ToT is routing the connections to America via Mumbai and London like usually

[SNGLIFE]

I stand by my prediction that we won't see an increase in speed or bandwidth. In fact, I predict a new 15Mbit package deal and the resulting over-saturation and clogging of Thailand's current bandwidth limitations. Chances are the internet will actually be slower.

Assuming they subscribe for more bandwidth, the scenario could only get better. More bandwidth even if there are more subscribers will necessarily see an improvement. In theory, even if there are more users, downloads will complete faster and that bandwidth will be available for the next user faster.

[nikster]

More bandwidth = better. End of story. That new cable should solve a lot of problems, though getting it up and running as it should may take a few months in the LOS....

Ages ago, when this project was started, I predicted that CAT would get 1/13th of the bandwidth considering they invested 1/13th of the cost, but I can't find the references now so that figure might be off. 1966 Gbps / 13 would be ~150Gbps or 2x Thailand's total bandwidth right now. Triple the bandwidth overnight should have a pretty significant impact.