224Mbps @ US$1.58

When the cables hit our shores they will all be nationalised, maybe build an offshore rig and beam the signal in?? hehe
 
I find these threads about high bandwidth more offensive than the racist threads, they should be deleted....
 
Sorry to rain on the parade, but as far as I know there is nowhere in the world that this broadband technology has been successfully implemented. At least not anywhere near these kind of speeds. For a while there, this technology was also touted as the solution to all South Africa's problems. But the announcements died away and the companies involved quietly disappeared. I will only get upset when I actually SEE this technology in operation. Until then I will file it with all the other "smoke in the wind" announcements that we see so often around here. Show me one country in the world that offers an "Internet over Power Lines" solution that matches anywhere near these speeds or prices.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=96093
 
this is becoming boring...

24 mb here 224 mb there 1 gig there
 
All universities in SA will be running on a 10gb WDM ring by the end of the year. The challenge will be to firewall this amount of bandwidth!! Also they will somehow have to shape international bandwidth to stop killing that link but this will not be too difficult though.
 
On what information do you base the statement that all Universities will be running on a 10gb WDM ring by the end of the year?

I know GEN3 has finally gone live, but that does not mean every varsity will have access to 10gb's of bandwidth, and the GEN3 link does not have 10gb of international bandwidth at its disposal. It might get more once SEACOM, uHuruNet and the other one go live, but thats still some years off.
 
I never said 10gb international hence the statement that they will need to shape international bandwidth.

Maybe not all but most will be on the WDM ring. I have the design document on my pc at work. The 10GB ring will connect all major universities. I think they said the international pipe will be 650mb but do not quote me on that one!

Wits already has 10gb available to them although I do not think it's live and they still running on GEN3. They are most probably worried about firewalling and the other challenges faced with this! There is curretly not a firewall that can handle this much bandwidth. Cisco and Nortel have hardware firewalls capable of running at around 6 - 7 GB (Cisco claim 10GB but that is with one rule and not many) but they are horrendously expensive and to get anything close to 10GB with a moderate rulebase you will need at least two running in load balance mode or even three! With some of the varsities having multible connections to the internet on their different campuses this can be a very very expensive exercise!

Go read THIS
 
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