Iburst - soon?

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I am itching to see this new iburst thing in action.

or rather, in production.
 
I hope it's January but to be fair their press releases only indicate "Q12005".

I'm just looking forward to see if they get all the towers running and tested in time - if their current support and service is anything to go by - this should be easy for them.
 
This is the biggest case of Deja Vu:

"Wow, a cool new technology that is better than the inefficient useless waste of money we currently have. Lets all run to it, quickly convert and then when something bad happens and we all get screwed we will moan like little girls"

This is a big case of wait and see.
 
I am sure they are learning from excellent case studies in South Africa. :-)

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Same here, I'll jump on the bandwagon anyday

Sentech, 99% downtime guarunteed!
 
WBS should be different, for two reasons:

a) They are following the MyWi saga closely.
b) They are aware that by this time next year, there will be at least six licensed broadband players in the market.

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<br />WBS should be different, for two reasons:

a) They are following the MyWi saga closely.
b) They are aware that by this time next year, there will be at least six licensed broadband players in the market.

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Amen brother. And as soon as wireless starts stealing a significant chunk of Telkoms ADSL customers (which will inevitably happen), Telkom will have to sweeten the ADSL pot.

[}:)] &lt;- Gloats

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Read about MaD of hellkom being sued for R5million by Telkom:
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yip. they are holding onto their secret weapon very tightly. I reckon its gonna take a lot for them to unleash a better ADSL.
 
It is quite interesting to read all the threads that've been running on this forum. Everyone's complaining, from lack of deregulation to sh+++y bandwidth. The majority of people expect government to step in and either finally deregulate the industry, or force Telkom to sell bandwidth at acceptable prices. With this I fully agree. If it was possible, I would be the first to set up my own links to international ISPs. Having said that, it seems that everyone forgets that our government unfortunately still sees internet access and telephones as a luxury, even if some departments try to paint a different picture. Just look at the cost of cellphone calls. Now who are the people that can afford luxury items? Definately not the average man on the street. F&**k, the average man just fights for survival, putting food on the table, after they paid their cellphone calls. Until the government is shown exactly what they are doing to the economy (not just insinuations and accusations, but real figures) and in the end to the man on the street, we will always have to pay a premium. They still need to make their couple of millions, like in the good old days when it was very profitable to be in government. It would really be nice if at some point someone in government will have the balls to stand up and say, enough is enough. Then again, it would be really nice to be able give yourself a BJ, very unlikely, but a possibility.
 
Wouldnt it be funny if Sentech sorts itself out then iburst starts to have the same problems sentech has and then all those who gave up on sentech and got iburst make a forum just like this one.
hehehe just a thought.(a very unlikely thought)

Glory Glory Man United!
 
Anyone know where iburst is getting all their bandwidth from and how much they actually have? Do they have more than Sentech or Telkom? After all, they are offering a 1mbit line apparently.
 
They are currently using UUNET for the pilot phase. However, during commercial rollout, more than one upstream provider could be used.

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A little technical document for those interested :

http://global.kyocera.com/prdct/telecom/office/iburst/data.html

While 1 mbps is pretty sweet by current standards in SA, this is as far as the iBurst technology in its current incarnation can go. I hope WBS (or the creators of iBurst) have a card up their sleeve for when broadband competitors release &gt;1 mbps packages... WiMAX perhaps?

Anyway this is probably in the land of fantasy given the current state of broadband in SA [;)]
 
AFAIK the current WBS offering is one of the potential 802.20 standards... WiMax is 802.16? as I recall. Competing technologies with rather different implementations.
 
http://nc3ta.nc3a.nato.int/vol2-sup2/ch02s04.html 15 Dec 2003

"One likely technology contributor to IEEE 802.20 is a company called Arraycomm. As the name suggests, their original mission was to develop solutions based on smart antenna array processing. Their technology allows spatial processing to be used to significantly increase the overall spectral efficiency of communications in cellular type networks. Their Intellicell technology is already deployed in the Far East as a performance enhancement for 2.5G base-stations. They have developed an all IP, high performance MBWA system, called iBurst, which aims to provide on-demand throughputs of 1 Mbps for 1,000-2,000 users in a 2 km cell. Arraycomm claim an effective security architecture with network authentication and session encryption keys. Being an IP network it is possible for users to layer this with a virtual private network (VPN). A trial iBurst network, which has been deployed in Sydney Australia, is now being extensively tested. A first generation iBurst base-station is the size of a small filing cabinet and typically feeds an array of ~10-16 antennas, whereas the mobiles are PCMCIA cards that plug into a laptop (and look much like a WLAN card)."

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<i>From http://www.iburst.co.za/technology.php</i>
<b>"As a result the iBurst network is able to provide data rates of up to 1 Mbps to each user with a maximum base station capacity of 20 Mbps."</b>

My question is if you have 20 noone's downloading porn 24/7 [:p]in your area (and looking at the coverage map the areas covered by one tower are huge), how slow will your downloads and browsing become. Or am I missing something?
 
I would personally think that if a base station gets to 80% of its capacity, another base station should be put up. Whether this happens or not, only time will tell.
 
I've just been checking the maps on iburst.co.za and lo and behold, I should have coverage from FOUR of the towers!!! Sandton, Northcliff, CBD, and Roodepoort [:0] (...and maybe even Bryanston).

Since the lotto network seems pretty stable, I have a good feeling about this.

-A
PS: WBS, I've checked my email, and there doesn't seem to be a mail from you yet regarding my testing of the system. Did it get lost? Please try to send again. [;)]

MW128, Tower <b>60</b>(Northpark Plaza), Signal:16%,S-N-L: 7, BER: 45%
 
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