Telkoms international Bandwidth

[Chubs]

Hi all

I dont know the dates of this but take a look at this articlle I found:
http://www.southafricanemb.se/communic2.htm

Specifically note this part:
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Integrated Services Digital Network channels saw a 25% increase from 374 062 in 2001 to 467 518
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Not sure if it refers to local only...

In my head that means 467 518 x 64k = 29, 921, 152k = 29GB or so

Now wouldnt they need that much international bandwidth to support all thos ISDN lines?

I am probably way off but that seems like a lot of bandwidth to me.

[Chubs]

Another article about the Sat 3 cable and what percentage of the bandwidth Telkom has:

http://www.tenet.ac.za/Publications/GlobalResearchNetworking.pdf


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[ColtonCat]

Just as an aside, ISDN is primarily used by big business as the interconnect to the PSTN for their PBXs, notably in the form of a so called primary rate interface PRI (that is actually an E1 or 32x64 B channels). This is the cheepest way to get a lot of lines onto your telephone switch.

I would guess only a small % of the lines that are quoted in that article are actually used for Internet access.

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[Peapod]

a little birdy told me that the biggest owner of the international bandwidth was UNDW (University of Durban Westville)
Amazing and about to verify if that is fact or not.
[:D]

[Chubs]

Look forward to hearing what you find. IS told me they had over 300mb of international bandwidth. I think at current the SAT3 is cable of 20Gb, of which telkom has 30%. Cant wait for it to reach its final capacity of 120GB.

[a-person]

120gb!

[ToxicBunny]

Peapod : I can tell you for absolute sure that the ex-UDW does not and never did have the biggest amount of International bandwidth.....

(I know this cos I worked at the merged Institution of UKZN, and the ex-UND blew UDW out of the water in terms of bandwidth) The merged institution has roughly 10mbs on Tenet IIRC

[.geek]

15-10-2003, 08:27 AM

What's the point in replying to 3 yr old threads?

[ToxicBunny]

Cos its fun?.. maybe...

and it causes a lil bit of chaos...