10Gbps SANReN Tshwane fibre optic network officially launched

And the poor man on the street sees none of this. I want access to the network. Pretty please!!! :D
 
Dnigma said:
And the poor man on the street sees none of this. I want access to the network. Pretty please!!! :D
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I work at a University, connected to this AND we mostly see 100 to 200KB/s

My CellC modem is faster :(

But I think our firewall / packeteer is to blame. Cannot "manage" the 1GB/s we now have... :(
 
I really don't see why they couldn't just swing by my house and connect me up.

I mean.... I also do a lot of "research".
 
It is good news to see these kinds of infrastructure developments. Money well spent!

Well done to Meraka as well - getting things done.
 
I research for the best torrent sites. Does that count? ;)
 
How many fiber networks are there in the country? I see trenches being dug -> covered -> dug again.....different coloured fiber coatings, etc, etc.....
 
What I don't understand is why they didn't put more fibre in from the get go. Sure 10Gb/s is fast, but is this really future proofing the network? I imagine the main cost to building any fibre network like this is the costs of digging the trenches/labour. I don't understand why they didn't just install x5 or even x10 the fibre and then they won't have to worry about upgrading for a very long time. Now they need to dig new trenches at massive cost to increase capacity.
 
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What I don't understand is why they didn't put more fibre in from the get go. Sure 10Gb/s is fast, but is this really future proofing the network? I imagine the main cost to building any fibre network like this is the costs of digging the trenches/labour. I don't understand why they didn't just install x5 or even x10 the fibre and then they won't have to worry about upgrading for a very long time. Now they need to dig new trenches at massive cost to increase capacity.
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It is possibly not the fibre itself that is the speed, but the devices at either end. For example, I live on a property that has fibre to nearly every house and building on it. The fibre does have a max throughput, but that doesn't factor into it in this case. The fibre doesn't determine the speed, but the fibre convertor at either end. So I have gigabit fibre to my house, but most other buildings have 100mbits. So, likewise, hopefully the 10 gigs can be upgarded with minimal effort.
 
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jasweb said:
I work at a University, connected to this AND we mostly see 100 to 200KB/s

My CellC modem is faster :(

But I think our firewall / packeteer is to blame. Cannot "manage" the 1GB/s we now have... :(
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Hehe, doubt it, you are probably only getting the left overs after the IT guys suck it dry with torrents! :) :)
 
valmore said:
What I don't understand is why they didn't put more fibre in from the get go. Sure 10Gb/s is fast, but is this really future proofing the network? I imagine the main cost to building any fibre network like this is the costs of digging the trenches/labour. I don't understand why they didn't just install x5 or even x10 the fibre and then they won't have to worry about upgrading for a very long time. Now they need to dig new trenches at massive cost to increase capacity.
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We have plenty fibres in the ground to run a very fast network, making it faster will simply mean upgrading the end equipment. In most of the major metro's, SANReN will hopefully never have to trench except when adding new sites to the network. So capacity in the metro's at this stage is practically unlimited, and we have enough fibres to ensure seamless equipment upgrades that won't affect existing networks.
 
I work at a University, connected to this AND we mostly see 100 to 200KB/s

My CellC modem is faster

But I think our firewall / packeteer is to blame. Cannot "manage" the 1GB/s we now have...
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Well, this is a speedtest I just did from Meraka...

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1571320827.png

This is actually quite slow, I've had more than 300 Mbps to Johannesburg, their servers must be busy..

So your IT department must please explain why you are not getting this. Also, remember that for international tests latency will have a significant impact on your network performance. This is something that is quite often misunderstood by our clients.
 
jasweb said:
I work at a University, connected to this AND we mostly see 100 to 200KB/s

My CellC modem is faster :(

But I think our firewall / packeteer is to blame. Cannot "manage" the 1GB/s we now have... :(
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Yeah internet at Tuks is also pretty sketchy. 5 minutes of 10KB/s and then bam 10MB/s for 2 sec. They also still have some 10mbit lan links in the network. No idea why.
 
Cool though this all sounds, this whole network falls into the same category as mine nationalisation. Every part of this network that gets built solely for SANReN reduces the viability of new fibre networks from private investors.
 
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Cool though this all sounds, this whole network falls into the same category as mine nationalisation. Every part of this network that gets built solely for SANReN reduces the viability of new fibre networks from private investors.
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I would disagree with you, we bought all our fibre networks from private telecommunications companies, and have sometimes been the primary reason why private companies invested in their own fibre networks in certain places. If anything SANReN is stimulating the building of privately owned dark fibre infrastructure - which in the end will only benefit the consumer.

Wherever our network goes, you can now be assured that there is dark fibre capacity in the ground that some commercial company would be willing to sell to you. I think this is amazing given where we were a few years ago.
 
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