Fibre Pipe Colours

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Alastairo

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In Somerset West there seems to be a major fibre pipe laying exercise on the go. There are four pipes, which are Orange, Blue, Green and Red.

What do those colours mean ? Is this a possible start on LLU ?
 
That sounds like a Dark Fibre Africa rollout. It is backbone infrastructure that is being used for backhaul from cellular base stations and high capacity links for network operators.

It could probably be used for backhaul between exchanges when LLU happens but there are a number of other hurdles to get over first.
 
It's been going on all over the country (and the Western Cape) for months. See this link for coverage maps:
http://www.dfafrica.co.za/cover_map_dfa.php

FAIK each major ISP will 'own' one of the conduits (6-8 smaller holes for fibres in each conduit).

Last month I saw them 'blowing' fibre down a hole with an air compressor - quite fascinating!
 
Gordon_R said:
It's been going on all over the country (and the Western Cape) for months. See this link for coverage maps:
http://www.dfafrica.co.za/cover_map_dfa.php

FAIK each major ISP will 'own' one of the conduits (6-8 smaller holes for fibres in each conduit).

Last month I saw them 'blowing' fibre down a hole with an air compressor - quite fascinating!
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They were putting some in long ago down the main road by my dslam then 2 days ago there was a guy working on the dslam hope its part of 10 meg lines

Dont see any other reason to work on dlsam since its working perfectly getting up to/over 500 kb/s sometimes
 
Merenwenrago said:
They were putting some in long ago down the main road by my dslam then 2 days ago there was a guy working on the dslam hope its part of 10 meg lines

Dont see any other reason to work on dlsam since its working perfectly getting up to/over 500 kb/s sometimes
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Don't get your hopes up! At the Clareinch exchange (near where I live) they dug up the road twice, once for Telkom (10Mbs), and once for DFA. They use different routes, although both go along the same road for short distances in some urban areas.
 
No-one has yet mentioned what the colours mean. I think everyone knows that orange is Neotel. I surmise that red is CellC.
 
Blue = Vodacom
Orange = Neotel
Red = Cell C
Green = Mtn?
Purple = Not sure but seen that colour could be 8tA
 
Alastairo said:
No-one has yet mentioned what the colours mean. I think everyone knows that orange is Neotel. I surmise that red is CellC.
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The colours mean very little. Everyone is laying all sorts of different coloured ducts. Telkom has some orange and red ducts, Neotel uses blue in some places and DFA has entire rainbows inside their trenches. ;)
 
Sorry ;) Thought about it as I posted.

Post some links guys ;)
 
MickeyD said:
The co-build Optic Transport Network (OTN) project comprises of the national long haul route, which will form a national optic fibre network for both MTN and Neotel, connecting it to the Gauteng area. The project has been almost equally divided into two parts consisting of allocated sections for Sanyai & Wavetech.The project consists of trenching and the installation of 8 x 32mm HDPE pipes with manholes every 1 km.
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Deffinately for Fibre and I suppose MTN and Neotel are identified. No great shakes. They should have done this ages ago before they increased their pricing ;)
 
MVGL said:
Deffinately for Fibre and I suppose MTN and Neotel are identified. No great shakes. They should have done this ages ago before they increased their pricing ;)
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Vodacom also joined the co-build. My guess is that the purple pipes are spare (for now)
 
Well Dark Fibre Africa have just finished laying the pipes in front of our office. Very interesting to see where the fibre is running in Somerset West.
 
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