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After the upgrade of TM core network(2)

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Ok,the whole work of upgrading TM core network to NGN had been completed by last Saturday.As what I thought,there were no differences before and after the upgrade again.

In some forums,a few people said that it was perhaps a start of HSBB project turning to substantial phrase and thus,we can’t feel any improvements yet.Well,I hope that is the truth.

And I heard the news about AAG(Asia-America Gateway) which will be officially launched in coming August.This is a 2 terabits cable which will be linking the major countries in South East Asia to USA.Once it gets into work,it should provide a much smooth way compared to current congested one.

However,all things discussing here are assumed.I wish the long waiting could give me some wonderful impression in the near future.How do you think about it?

After the upgrade of TM core network(1)

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I have to say that I didn’t feel any changes after the upgrade from TM.The issue of high latency to international links with packet loss is still here and complaints are still around everywhere.

Is it because the upgrade hasn’t been completed?As I mention,there is another upgrade on next Friday night.Maybe we need to wait all work done first and then only give out our conclusions.

All right!Let’s wait and see.

Upgrading core network by TM

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TM claimed that an upgrade for its core network will be processed on two days:

  1. Friday, 12 June 2009, 11 pm till Saturday, 13 June 2009, 6 am
  2. Friday, 19 June 2009, 11 pm till Saturday, 20 June 2009, 6 am

During that period all Internet and VoIP service may experience some disruption.

The main work it will be done is to migrate the existing core network into an NGN(Next Generation Networking) core network which was said to be "the latest network technology to facilitate the ongoing improvements of our network performance and service quality. The migration will allow TM to provide a more integrated service proposition to support a large ecosystem of applications."

More and more users are complaining on the low service quality from the beginning of the year.I think this upgrade should be a response to the complaints.However,whether this is effective is still unknown.

We have to wait for 2 weeks to see the result.I hope it could be positive.

Broadband in Singapore

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When I suffer the slow international link issues,I hear a lot of good news from other countries.In Singapore,the very neighbour country of Malaysia,it has estimated the Next Generation Network on the board and planned to release it on April 2010.Starhub won the contract and will be in charge of this new service.

The tariff for the new network has open to public.

Wholesale prices are set at SGD 21 per month for a 100 Mbps residential connection and SGD 121 for 1 Gbps, while non-residential premises, such as offices and schools, will have a wholesale price of SGD 75 for 100 Mbps and SGD 860 for 1 Gbps.

In order to clearly get the comparisons with Malaysian Broadband,I made a graph here:

Streamyx VS NGN

We could find that we subscribe Streamyx 4Mbps packages where the speed is 25 times lower than Singapore NGN-100Mbps plan,but we have to pay the price 3 times higher than Singaporean one.

Just unfair!