How cable thieves and load-shedding ruin Internet

Business can mitigate the problem by installing inverters and a SD-WAN that bonds fixed wireless and fibre.
What baffles me is why many businesses do neither then claim to be losing millions. Millions I tell you.
The cost of a resilient SD-WAN is about R2500 a month and an inverter is about R12k. Small price to pay to save those millions.
 
Our xDSL lasts about 40 minutes these days when the power goes off because the batteries are shot. Spoke to a technician recently and there aren't any immediate plans to rectify the situation because it's happening all over according to him.
 
As has been repeated every year... Anyways.

MTN in my area goes off when loadshedding kicks in. Frustrating. So no signal during loadshedding. Wonder what one does when there is an emergency. Its not like you can send a WhatsApp to the police or ambulance services (assuming you have a working fibre or adsl connection and router on battery), not that they would pitch up within an hour anyways.
 
r00igev@@r said:
Business can mitigate the problem by installing inverters and a SD-WAN that bonds fixed wireless and fibre.
What baffles me is why many businesses do neither then claim to be losing millions. Millions I tell you.
The cost of a resilient SD-WAN is about R2500 a month and an inverter is about R12k. Small price to pay to save those millions.
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Can you tell me more about SD-WAN and how it works?

Although I have a home office.

I have 3 different connections/routers / providers. But I manually switch when one goes offline.

Would be nice if this could happen automatically.
 
How thieves and clowns ruin SA and cost South Africa trillions
 
RedViking said:
Can you tell me more about SD-WAN and how it works?

Although I have a home office.

I have 3 different connections/routers / providers. But I manually switch when one goes offline.

Would be nice if this could happen automatically.
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There are two main types. Hub and spoke and mesh.
Hub and spoke has an edge and an aggregator (installed in a data centre). Edge has tunnels to the aggregator.
Mesh has only an edge and they all connect to each other.
Both connect to cloud based orchestraters.

The difference between hub and spoke and the mesh variants is the ability with hub and spoke to do last mile optimization. As an example the big difference is hub and spoke has near instant failover and mesh takes 30 seconds.

Mesh is really designed for an overlay network such as a branch network. This category includes most of the ones from the firewall and wifi vendors.

With the SD-WAN I work with the single site is not only optimized but the links are bonded, meaning you get the bandwith from all links, e.g. from 50mbs + 20mbs you'll get 70mbs.

Most sites when installed with SD-WAN and supplemented by inverters achieve uptimes of 100%. However, you get additional functions such as automated last mile packet loss mitigation, quality of experince such as crystal clear voice, security (incl. level 1 threat intelligence), true resilient name resolution, cloud acceleration (especially for storage such as dropbox, onedrive, etc), and full visibility to last mile metrics,

For any small business it is worth using a second fixed wireless link to mitigate any fibre downtime. Don't ever use LTE as that has bill shock. The amount wasted on mobile data in one incident can easily pay for the costs of a SD-WAN solution using fixed wireless for two years!

SD-WAN also requires a dual ISP strategy. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. You can aggregate your bill via one ISP. This basically means that your billing aggregator does a direct link and the alternative link via another ISP. You only pay the ISP doing the billing aggrgation for both.
 
r00igev@@r said:
There are two main types. Hub and spoke and mesh.
Hub and spoke has an edge and an aggregator (installed in a data centre). Edge has tunnels to the aggregator.
Mesh has only an edge and they all connect to each other.
Both connect to cloud based orchestraters.

The difference between hub and spoke and the mesh variants is the ability with hub and spoke to do last mile optimization. As an example the big difference is hub and spoke has near instant failover and mesh takes 30 seconds.

Mesh is really designed for an overlay network such as a branch network. This category includes most of the ones from the firewall and wifi vendors.

With the SD-WAN I work with the single site is not only optimized but the links are bonded, meaning you get the bandwith from all links, e.g. from 50mbs + 20mbs you'll get 70mbs.

Most sites when installed with SD-WAN and supplemented by inverters achieve uptimes of 100%. However, you get additional functions such as automated last mile packet loss mitigation, quality of experince such as crystal clear voice, security (incl. level 1 threat intelligence), true resilient name resolution, cloud acceleration (especially for storage such as dropbox, onedrive, etc), and full visibility to last mile metrics,

For any small business it is worth using a second fixed wireless link to mitigate any fibre downtime. Don't ever use LTE as that has bill shock. The amount owasted on mobile data in one incident can easily pay for the costs of a SD-WAN solution using fixed wireless for two years!

SD-WAN also requires a dual ISP strategy. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. You can aggregate your bill via one ISP. This basically means that your billing aggregator does a direct link and the alternative link via another ISP. You only pay the ISP doing the billing aggrgation for both.
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This is flippen awesome. Bookmarked.
 
RedViking said:
This is flippen awesome. Bookmarked.
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Kewl. Vodacom and MTN are laughing all the way to the bank during loadshedding and the pandemic. They like those Enron traders laughing about the power lines burning down during wild fires.
It would be good to have @rpm @Jan get comments from the two operators about how big their gains have been...
 
The short and sweet is, that if SA Telecommunication providers can't find solutions of implementing ways to prevent theft of batteries or vandalism they are going to lose much more when SpaceX Starlink Sattellite internet arrives.
 
RedViking said:
As has been repeated every year... Anyways.

MTN in my area goes off when loadshedding kicks in. Frustrating. So no signal during loadshedding. Wonder what one does when there is an emergency. Its not like you can send a WhatsApp to the police or ambulance services (assuming you have a working fibre or adsl connection and router on battery), not that they would pitch up within an hour anyways.
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Weirdly, Vodacom in my area used to eat shet when load-shedding happened, now this last round of load-shedding, Vodacom has not only been up but also fast.
 
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