More national bandwidth required in South Africa

[jes]

More national bandwidth required in South Africa

Undersea cable systems in South Africa can provide terabits of bandwidth, and the bottleneck is now national backhaul capacity

[markings]

Can we have a map, capacities and timelines for these national backhaul grids?

[Garyvdh]

Mooooaaarrrrr Pipes Plz.

[Reaver.ZA]

Can we have a map, capacities and timelines for these national backhaul grids?

+1

[speedbird]

In other news...

Today is Thursday.

[Skerminkel]

I see opportunities for Cape Town and Durban. They do not need Hellkom to become some of the best connected cities in the world, by the sound of it.

[MightyMuffinMan]

and when national is sorted out they wil claim international is not enough

[siraman]

and when national is sorted out they wil claim international is not enough

Any excuse will do from these telco's

[Jan]

Can we have a map, capacities and timelines for these national backhaul grids?

Steve Song is working on this... http://manypossibilities.net/afterfibre/

He's hit a snag, which will hopefully be resolved, though: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/column...lkoms-ceo.html

[inferno]

Here is shows that local is more than half the price of international b/w: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/adsl/4...sts-in-sa.html

These ISP's need to stop moaning from their sofa and start digging trenches. They are fighting their wars through politics and regulation instead of actually attempting to compete directly. THAT is why it is taking so damn long.

[MickZA]

These ISP's need to stop moaning from their sofa and start digging trenches. They are fighting their wars through politics and regulation instead of actually attempting to compete directly. THAT is why it is taking so damn long.

Things are happening as somebody's been digging trenches throughout the PE suburbs for over six months.

Neotel, Vodacom and MTN have partnered and are busy constructing a national fibre network

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Can only assume it's these guys as Telkom deny all knowledge.

[ToxicBunny]

Things seem to be happening everywhere..

Even in Pinetown (which isn't the most affluent area of Durban) they've been digging trenches and laying down vast swathes of fibre.... granted nobody knows what its for atm, but hey.. its something.

[2012]

Aren't darkfibre also doing some national cables?

[Bern]

Can we have a map, capacities and timelines for these national backhaul grids?

+2

Steve Song is working on this... http://manypossibilities.net/afterfibre/

He's hit a snag, which will hopefully be resolved, though: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/column...lkoms-ceo.html

And that

Please can we also not just have links to CT-JB-DB-PE-Bloem seriously think redundancy, why lay your national fibre exactly where everyone else as??? I get cell towers on main routes need to be serviced, but if there are 2 or 3 other fibre paths there suck it up and do a deal for your paths in other areas to reduce cost.

Also please add more POPs on the national links, hook up all the little dorpies on route - surely it can't cost much extra??

[siraman]

Aren't darkfibre also doing some national cables?

Yep! And I understand Steve Song(http://manypossibilities.net/2012/01...o-telkoms-ceo/) is tirelessly working on it,but....Maps please!! From all you players in the fibre laying/provisioning business for the sake of progression for our country.