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With the 2010 Soccer World Cup fast approaching the Seacom undersea fibre optic cable, plugging East Africa (Network Schematic) into high speed Internet , went live on Thursday July 23, 2009 - as reported by the BBC and CNN. Such a cable should dramatically reduce the cost of bandwidth measured in $/Mbps, reduce the Round Trip Times (RTT) from >~ 480 ms for a geostationary satellite, down to 200-350ms (seen from N. America) by using shorter distance terrestrial routes. Also by increasing the capacity reduce the congestion and thus the losses and jitter.
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