2010 Bandwidth and ICT details start to emerge

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Rudolph Muller is the editor at MyBroadband and covers telecoms and broadband news. Rudolph comes from an academic background, but left the University of...

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These are the details, supplied by an anonymous source, that have emerged about a recent 2010 Soccer World Cup ICT Committee meeting.

According to the source, each 2010 stadium will be equipped with two 20 Gbps connections to serve its bandwidth needs.  This contract has apparently been given to Telkom already which raised questions as to why this was the case.

The information further suggests that Sentech will supply each of the World Cup stadiums with satellite uplinks.  Apart from the stadiums, all other World Cup venues will also have to be served with suitable fiber connections which will be supplied by Telkom, Neotel, Sentech and InfraCo.

Another interesting piece of information which emerged from the feedback is that South Africa’s national broadcasting corporation, the SABC, has the sole rights to all broadcasting signals in South Africa – radio and television – for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.

A great deal of funding will be needed to prepare South Africa for the 2010 World Cup, and according to the source funding will be requested for an upgrade to Telkom’s network, preparing the country for Digital Broadcasting, broadband rollout and the creation of a second teleport for Sentech.

The World Cup Organizing Committee was contacted for comment last week, but did not provide any feedback by the time of publication.

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