How does RAIN back up its 200mbps claims?

[Clintie]

My question relates to the backhaul, and by this I mean the following:

By offering premium customers a 200mbps (approx) service, Rain obviously need to back that up with some sort of "backbone" to make sure the rest of the traffic from the Tower gets to destination at more or less (generally less) the 200mbps advertised.

But to make that happen you need the mother of all fibre connections or some other wizardry especially if you're carrying potentially hundreds of customers at those speeds.

Anyone here smart enough to educate me on how this works? or even perhaps who you think is providing this back haul and how it affects us considering Rain can offer it so much cheaper than mainstream Fibre providers?

Hope this makes sense and I look forward to the comments.
Clintie

 

[WAslayer]

Like most other networks, it's built on the premise that, not all customers will be using the full 200mbps all at the same time..

 

[chrisc]

And you must be no more than 50m from the transmitter

 

[Leno]

Contention ratio - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Clintie]

I appreciate the responses Guys.

Assuming that is the case for the traffic from your CPE to the Towers I wonder what the case is with the uplinks. I dont recall RAIN ever having laid their own fibre network for linking international traffic or even for the local loop so I gather they must be using another Vendor for those services EG Vumatel/Metro/Openserve??

Your thoughts.

 

[Assasin_Zer0]

My question relates to the backhaul, and by this I mean the following:

By offering premium customers a 200mbps (approx) service, Rain obviously need to back that up with some sort of "backbone" to make sure the rest of the traffic from the Tower gets to destination at more or less (generally less) the 200mbps advertised.

But to make that happen you need the mother of all fibre connections or some other wizardry especially if you're carrying potentially hundreds of customers at those speeds.

Anyone here smart enough to educate me on how this works? or even perhaps who you think is providing this back haul and how it affects us considering Rain can offer it so much cheaper than mainstream Fibre providers?

Hope this makes sense and I look forward to the comments.
Clintie

They do back it up "Up to 200 Mbps ...... " "Best effort "
So in other words , if your one of the lucky few , you might get that 200 or more..

 

[McGuywer]

I appreciate the responses Guys.

Assuming that is the case for the traffic from your CPE to the Towers I wonder what the case is with the uplinks. I dont recall RAIN ever having laid their own fibre network for linking international traffic or even for the local loop so I gather they must be using another Vendor for those services EG Vumatel/Metro/Openserve??

Your thoughts.

Remember, Rain is basically a rebranded WBS/iBurst.

In the beginning iBurst was the fastest and the greatest. As time went by, fixed line outperformed and outpriced iBurst. People with no alternative stuck with iBurst.

Sort of the same is happening with Rain. Network is slowly starting to crumble and fibre prices is dropping.
I need to restart twice a day, sometimes more. Once fibre is available, I will be moving over.