224Mbps @ US$1.58

I have read that, and do know about SaNReN...

That yes, is a 10gbps shared network, but it is not a 10gb internet connection, it is a research network.

Wits etc etc etc will be on SaNReN and GEN3, as they serve 2 totally different purposes.
 
ToxicBunny said:
I have read that, and do know about SaNReN...

That yes, is a 10gbps shared network, but it is not a 10gb internet connection, it is a research network.

Wits etc etc etc will be on SaNReN and GEN3, as they serve 2 totally different purposes.
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If you say so :p

UJ is copying stuff off mirror.ac.za at 700mb/s which kinda says to me it's connected to the internet and they only using 1GB interface at the moment!

That's unless you classify the internet as international sites only ;)
 
"high speed Internet connection of 224Mbps (megabits per second)"

er...thats not so fast...224 megabits per second is like 24MB/s.....

AFAIK the UK/Germany/Chinaland already have speeds like this.:rolleyes:

8 bits = 1 byte.

In my opinion, our 3G speeds are almost good enough (really, they ARE!) we just need the bundles to be CHEAPER!
 
RogueRunner said:
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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OT - But the Juniper Netscreen 5200/5400 can handle such traffic, for the 5400 it can go 30Gbps pure FW.;)

http://www.juniper.net/products_and...psec_vpn/netscreen_5200_slash_netscreen_5400/
 
RogueRunner said:
Contrary to popular believe universities do have limited budgets :p Of course you can firewall and shape almost anything, it's just a matter of how much it will cost ya :D
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For what they are spending on the connectivity, $34k for the 5400 chasis is peanuts man, thats R 269k, from about R 200mil contract.
 
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sox63 said:
For what they are spending on the connectivity, $34k for the 5400 chasis is peanuts man, thats R 269k, from about about R 200mil contract.
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Ok, my bad. Thought the thing was much more expensive.
 
This is worse than a Trek Mumbo thread......
 
sox63 said:
For what they are spending on the connectivity, $34k for the 5400 chasis is peanuts man, thats R 269k, from about R 200mil contract.
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Did some inquiries. The thing can only FW 5GB full duplex with one 10G module (two ports). So if you want to do 10GB full duplex you need another 10G module. Now you need to load balance your traffic across the ports so more hardware needed. All in all work out to about R1.2 bar per site which is getting expensive!!! :(

So the short of the matter is. THe backplane can maybe do 30GB but you need a outhouse full modules to actually get that throughput and those things cost money! The loadbalancers or routers that can do ECMP also will not be cheap! Back to square one.
 
RogueRunner said:
Did some inquiries. The thing can only FW 5GB full duplex with one 10G module (two ports). So if you want to do 10GB full duplex you need another 10G module. Now you need to load balance your traffic across the ports so more hardware needed. All in all work out to about R1.2 bar per site which is getting expensive!!! :(

So the short of the matter is. THe backplane can maybe do 30GB but you need a outhouse full modules to actually get that throughput and those things cost money! The loadbalancers or routers that can do ECMP also will not be cheap! Back to square one.
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That is true, however even at/over a bar it is good value considering the bandwidth they are working with. And typically they would secure one point and not every site, mostly where the breakout to the internet is.

I had a look at the Cisco alternative and for that you also need 2 FWSModules that will go into the CAT 6500 chasis. Also a very pricey exercise.
 
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