Government guarantees 500 Gbps for 2010 World Cup

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/1028.html

 

[ToxicBunny]

Oh great, so we're kind of going to match what Germany did, and not really go beyond that..



I was thinking for 2010, we're going to need in excess of 1Tb... but then maybe I'm just overestimating.

 

[hoover99]

registers soccertorrents.ru...

 

[Lord Anubis]

LOL ....prolly put all us SA citizens on dial-up for the month just to scrounge capacity

 

[eltherza]

Government cant even provide electrical power to its own people... I can see it now "Durban wont have any power because the cape town stadium needs the power"

500GB, we've been asking for better broadband for years now and nothings been done. Where is everyone getting the sudden money for 2010? Why is it only possible to get a 500GB backbone now and not earlier?

bah

 

[ToxicBunny]

etherza : There isn't even talk of a 500Gb backbone, they're talking 20Gbs (with a second for redundancy) etc etc etc..

Personally I feel the stadiums should have considerably more than that, so that we can at least show we have the capability.
But at the same time, it mustn't interefere with the Internet in this country in any discernable way.

 

[ldmelsa]

Oh great, so we're kind of going to match what Germany did, and not really go beyond that..

Why?

The broadcast requirements are the same.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Why aim for the same, when we can aim for much higher?

 

[TiredOfWaiting]

Isn't this the same government that promised millions of houses in 2 years or something like that??

I'll believe it when I see it!

 

[ldmelsa]

Why aim for the same, when we can aim for much higher?

What's the point?

 

[ld13]

What's the point?

2 Flies in one go! Would work out cheaper too I guess. Cheaper to build a 1TBPS system in one go than to upgrade a 200MBPS backbone 4 times. And they "could" send the bill to FIFA

 

[gregmcc]

500Gpbs!!! Just where exactly are they going to pull that out of.....wait don't answer that!

 

[kifoth]

Why?

The broadcast requirements are the same.

Who's talking broadcast? Web video viewership is growing exponentially year on year. Couple that with several thousand tourists who will all want to use the internet in the way they're used to (YouTube, Joost, p2p etc), then throw in whatever bandwidth intensive applications people come up with in the next 3 years, and you are going to need way more than what Germany used last year...

 

[daveza]

As an ex Sentech user I get worried when the words back-up redundancy links are used in the same sentence as this company.

 

[Alan]

Why aim for the same, when we can aim for much higher?

Exactly

 

[Pilgrim]

So let me see. If you provide 20 Gb/s to 10 stadiums and add another 20 Gb/s redundancy you get 500 Gb/s backbone?

You have to love this Chinese math.

As far as I can see they will provide a 40Gb/s backbone, not 500.

Same as saying I have 10 cars that can go 200Km/h so I have a 2000Km/h fleet! yea!

 

[daveza]

Maybe it's 20 Gigs per stadium ?

 

[Sneeky]

Didn't know that TELKOM could even count data past 3 gig, go figure.

 

[ldmelsa]

Who's talking broadcast? Web video viewership is growing exponentially year on year. Couple that with several thousand tourists who will all want to use the internet in the way they're used to (YouTube, Joost, p2p etc), then throw in whatever bandwidth intensive applications people come up with in the next 3 years, and you are going to need way more than what Germany used last year...

They are talking about the bandwidth for FIFA. Once it reaches FIFA's international broadcast center, it's got nothing to do with us anymore.

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

It's 40GBps for each stadium...

I don't see what this has to do with SA's internet bandwidth, tourists can't use this, no one is watching from the web on this bandwidth. It's for broadcasting, but then.. once the World Cup is over we've got all that bandwidth lying around anyway, it can only be good?

btw, is there any reason we need more than Germany did, or just Telkom sucks so our world cup bandwidth does too? Will the broadcasts be higher quality or more frequent?