Other countries beefing up broadband for 2010

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The Internet Industry Assocation (IIA) has released a set of "aspirational goals" for Australia' broadband services calling for 80 percent of the population to have access to a service delivering at least 10Mbps downstream by 2010.
The same percentage should have access to upstream services of at least 1Mbps. "Upstream ratios are expected to remain relatively static for low end users, but progress towards full symmetrical services for businesses and high end users," IIA says.

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The IIA's targets have been set based on comparisons of broadband availability towards 2010 in other countries, complemented by an examination of Australia's current status, and the deployment of broadband infrastructure in place, in build, in plan and in prospect. The IIA observes that by far the greatest demand on bandwidth will come from video, with HDTV being the most intensive.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/5145/127/

I was just wondering, all these other countries are beefing up their broadband for 2010, offering HDTV and such. But what use is all of that if SA cannot stream the data out at more than 1mb/s? If I am not mistaken, Telkom is gonna provide the infrastructure and bandwidth for all of this, and they are gonna have to send out data at more than 1gb/s, is Telkom even capable of this? A stadium will overshoot their 3gb cap in the first 5 seconds of play, and then be charged R100 per gb afterwards :eek:
 
huh?
Why would they be using ADSL and why would Telkom charge themselves?
 
JStrike said:
huh?
Why would they be using ADSL and why would Telkom charge themselves?
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As far as I know, the German world cup used mainly IP services to broadcast their content from their stadiums (correct me if I am wrong). And telkom would not be charging themselves, they would be charging the holding company of the stadium. And possibly FIFA :p
 
You dont need ADSL to have an IP broadcast. It will go over a direct connection. So Diginet, T1, etc.
And Telkom will probably do it for free as a sponsorship thing. But if they dont, they will charge Fifa a fixed amount for the entire event (This will likely be quite a few million rand).
 
JStrike said:
You dont need ADSL to have an IP broadcast. It will go over a direct connection. So Diginet, T1, etc.
And Telkom will probably do it for free as a sponsorship thing. But if they dont, they will charge Fifa a fixed amount for the entire event (This will likely be quite a few million rand).
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Ok, but everthing would probably have to go by the SAT-3 cable then, any ideas as to what speed and capacity it has?
 
One of the guarantees to FIFA is that there is a media center available capable of broadcasting the necessary data.
I would wager that this facility and the bandwidth it requires would be provided at significantly reduced rates to what the SA public or companies are 'forced' to pay.
Heck we the public are probably already paying for this bandwidth in advance.

There will be no problem (technical or econimic) streaming the data sitting anywhere in the developed world for this event.
Unlike the recent Billabong Pro that was a joke / disaster.

Sitting in SA and trying to stream will more than likely be very costly at our broadband prices though.
 
Deiphos said:
Just found out that the SAT-3 cable has a capacity of 120Gb/s (http://www.safe-sat3.co.za/SystemInformation/SystemInformation.asp). So speed won't be a problem. I am also sure that the SAT-3 cable has paid itself off by now, so bandwidth can't be a problem. The only problem in this whole thing (the thorn in SA's backside) is Telkom :p
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It might have that capacity but remember that's divided amongst all the stake holding countries.
 
Surely they would / could transmit the data to other countries 'once' and then redistribute it there via other networks.
 
Deiphos said:
Just found out that the SAT-3 cable has a capacity of 120Gb/s (http://www.safe-sat3.co.za/SystemInformation/SystemInformation.asp). So speed won't be a problem. I am also sure that the SAT-3 cable has paid itself off by now, so bandwidth can't be a problem. The only problem in this whole thing (the thorn in SA's backside) is Telkom :p
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120Gbps is the final total amount of bandwidth for all connected countries to share unfortunately.

The portion we use is used for phone calls, ADSL, diginet, dialup etc etc so it's likely SAT3 will prove insufficient, especially considering that data services are growing very fast these days and by 2010 the bandwidth demand will be much higher than it is currently. EASSY should be up and running by then, supposedly, and there's SAFE as well.. there are lots of satellites hanging around as well luckily.
 
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