How are Sentech base stations connected?

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Just curious - How are the Sentech base stations connected to the Sentech network? Is it via radio or via Telkom?
 
They can't use any telkom infrastructure

They're connected via Microwave links

Why do you have to "put your two cents in"... but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?
 
being in the tv industry and having worked alongside (not for) sentech for years, if you knew just HOW BIG sentech actually are, you would probably fall over. every tv signal in everytown, every radio station in every town in this country , brough to you by sentech, huge infrastructure, obviously mywireless cannot run on their current infrastructure, its all new so starting from scratch in that regard... but when i heard sentech were offering wireless broadband, i knew we were in good hands coz no-one in this country could handle something this big but them...

um, obviously i like sentech and dont keep getting disconnected.. ha ha
 
They don't use Telkom infrastructure at all, they buy their b/w from IS. Which technically speaking, is using telkom's infrastructure, but because IS (and UUNET) are both independant from telkom they can buy their needed b/w from IS without causing a stir. Lets call it a grey area.

Towers are linked to each other via Microwave links. Each tower bounces your signal (or web request) to a different tower till it reaches the hub, which then forwards your request to their bandwidth providers (IS) also via Microwave links.

Thus, no telkom lines are ever used except for incoming/outgoing bandwidth from IS.

Just think telkom WAS involved, we'll probably wait 7 months AT LEAST for lines to get installed per tower..... they can put up a tower within 2 weeks.

/me writes dbnnet a reality cheque

Why do you have to "put your two cents in"... but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?
 
well watching what has happened in the last 10 years of telecommunications in this country, i dont see a 3g competitor for at least a couple of years. and the only players big enough to go wireless broadband are 2 of the cellular players, and that is not just going to happen, why should ICASA license them and not someone else (thats how strange ICASa works) and for a cellular provider its an ENTIRE new network, cant just piggyback off the current one.... oh and please let it be mtn coz voda is part owned by telkom...
 
i can guarentee (ooops, no i cant) they are using bits and pieces of telkom network. from my wee experience they will use there own microwave network wherever possible, why not its free, but certain areas they have to use telkom like the hop to durbs or ct... sure they might just hop straight on to the IS backbone in those centres but if they dont they will fibre link (telkom)with jhb.... oooooh ad on the milliseconds...
 
Everyone knows that Vodacom is largely owned by Telkom, you can even see it in the logo design (same colour scheme etc.)

I remember hearing something a while back along the lines of Telkom also having a large, if not majority stake, in Sentech.

Maybe that's why Telkom don't seem to appose Sentech's offering that much.

Could anyone confirm this ?
 
i remember sentech being part owned by sabc at one time (mnet's equivalent signal carrier is orbicom) which in turn is government owned.... who owns telkom? even tho privatised?
 
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and for a cellular provider its an ENTIRE new network
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That's incorrect.
Here's a quote from the ipwireless site:
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An existing cellular operator can leverage a great deal of its existing and planned network infrastructure in deploying the IPWireless solution.
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So for our cellular providers, this type of network would be very easy to deploy.

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I think where they get their bandwith from is not important, its the quality that counts, and yes the do use telkom, one of the high sites sits on a Telkom building in pretoria, remeber these guys have been around a long time, and are by no means enemys with Telkom, if anything they are firends. and as for IS being smaller I doubt it, the entire banking system in SA is on the IS backbone.

Keep Surfing
 
Another correction...the banks don't run their backbones through ISPs, but have direct relations with Telkom, the only part of the banks that touch ISPs, are the internet banking links....

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And now that we've all corrected each other and basically said the same thing .....

Damn ... better find something to download before I say something ... *grin*
 
... some more than others...

(why is the timestamp on flash's post broken?)

- Colin Alston
colin at alston dot za dot org

"Warning: Use with extreme caution."
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Karnaugh</i>
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(why is the timestamp on flash's post broken?)
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Good question. There seems to be quite a few timestamp issues with this forum.

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