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IS criticises Telkom - ITWeb

BY PAUL VECCHIATTO,

[Cape Town | ITWeb, 1 November 2005] - An e-mail bemoaning the fact that the tier one Internet service provider (ISP) is struggling to roll-out its own Internet connectivity offerings, due to the slow pace of liberalisation and accusing Telkom of deliberate obstruction, was sent by Internet Solutions (IS) CEO Angus McRobert last week...

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http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/telecoms/2005/0511011118.asp?S=Internet&A=INT&O=FPIN

To meet this, IS plans to invest in two more satellite hubs (costing R8 million each), but these links will only be available in late February.

This will take IS's total international bandwidth to 1GB, says McRobert.
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Can it be that IS currently has only around 333 MB ( 1GB / 3 ) of international bandwidth via satellite?
 
do you have any idea how much data you can transfer in 333Mbps? it has the same bandwidth as +/- 4 100Mbps LAN connections!!!
 
well SAIX has something like 10 - 30 gigabits per second (they have like 15% stake in it)... The undersea cable has 120 GB/s (12 gigabytes per sec). thats 100 times the amount IS has ( If i understand that its megabits not megabytes per second).
 
andres101 - I have to disagree.

1Gbps is not that much bandwidth for a top-tier ISP international backbone.

Telkom has access to 20% of the SAT-3 AND safe cable even though it only purchased 13% (Total of 27.3Gbps). That is 27x more bandwidth than IS proposed 1Gbps.

Don't forget about the new SEA-ME-WE4 cable with 1024Gbps capacity (http://www.seamewe4.com/inpages/about_sea_me_we_4.asp) linking Europe with Singapore. You can not even compare this low-latency terrabit per second connection with IS.
 
unlike Telkom, IS did not inherit the Submarine cables - they actually have to fork out big money to lay out this sort of stuff.

Even though IS 'only' has 333mbps SAT connectivity, they do utilize the Sub Cable too. It was announced today (at MyAdsl conference) that they are in the process of doing a deal with Sentech for more international bandwidth via SAT.

Telkom have this large international capacity in the SAT 3 and SAFE cables yet they are only utilizing 25% of their allocated share!! Imagine what would happen if the actually drop prices to international norms, and utilize all of the capacity.
 
Franna said:
BY PAUL VECCHIATTO,

Can it be that IS currently has only around 333 MB ( 1GB / 3 ) of international bandwidth via satellite?
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Thats Farkin shocking !!! I know of business in the UK with gig pipes all to themselves !!!!!
 
stix said:
Thats Farkin shocking !!! I know of business in the UK with gig pipes all to themselves !!!!!
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Yes but we dont have enough broadband users to warrant sufficient investment in huge amounts of idle bandwidth.. When (if) broadband become affordable in SA (stop laughing!) then surely there will be upgrades etc but having 3 times more bandwidth available than now will definitely make a difference for IS and their customers. I'm sure IS would offer 2+Mbps services but Telkom is the bottleneck to development in SA. IS are putting in effort whereas Telkom are sitting on their fat monopoly ass luring more people into contracts and making fat profits off people who stretch their neck to pay for connectivity.. basteds.
 
Mad - you so right, i just chat to mates who are OS and the numbers they talk are huge in comparison. I have a work adsl account from IS. And apart from occasional lag on the international its pretty good.
 
Sure sounds like they want to beat Telkom over the head till its dead. And who can blame them? Im sure its going to be a bumpy road ahead for IS, but lets support them where we can? Disconnects or downtime...just stick it out!
 
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