Local content the way forward

Content with local content?

Never. :mad:
 
The problems associated with South Africa’s geographic location and the related international bandwidth predicament was recently highlighted by Telkom’s Steven Hayward, pointing to the limitations that this scenario brings to broadband offerings.
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Does this guy ever get a break from talking absolute rubbish?

Dr. Kai Wulff, Managing Director of Kenya Data Networks, says that local content can go a long way to limit the need for international connectivity and make it easier to offer high speed, low cost broadband services to consumers.
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That is not a proper solution. That is a "proudly south african half-arsed" solution.

This local content should not only be local websites serving the local community, but should include companies like Yahoo or Google moving their point of presence to South Africa.
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I am sure they would just love eskoms constant power outages and the wholesale price of bandwidth provided by telkom.

Besides that, the article doesn't take into account that these companies would have to sync their entire data stores to here everyday which would take more bandwidth than our entire capacity.

In the end, nothing will change while we have the same government.
 
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It would be great to have local content because, according to ICASA's NOTICE 1112 OF 2006 Article 3.4 "Local bandwidth usage shall not be subject to the cap."

This will be a big step forward for the SA Internet.
 
56kMan said:
It would be great to have local content because, according to ICASA's NOTICE 1112 OF 2006 Article 3.4 "Local bandwidth usage shall not be subject to the cap."

This will be a big step forward for the SA Internet.
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Sure - now if we can convince the likes of YouTube, MySpace, Digg, Google, CNN, . . . . all to move to SA we can have real internet access. :rolleyes: that aint gonna happen.

ICASA/DoC needs to do away with the entire notion of international vs local and we can join the rest of the world instead of falling further and further behind.

People seem to forget - we had uncapped local until when, Nov 05? It wasnt that great.
 
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We just need a big cache server in SA, pref in the terabyte capacity.
 
We need uncapped international 4Mbps at R200pm thats WTF we need. NOT "DSL"384 for fckn R500pm with a 2GB cap.
 
neio said:
We just need a big cache server in SA, pref in the terabyte capacity.
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There is already one - every single bit of http traffic in SA goes through a webcache before it leaves our shores (figuratively speaking) but that of has no influence on the huge amounts of dynamic content that is now being served up by most of the big players in the online world.

Aside from the big boys there are many others who should be encouraged to host their sites locally. I have no figures but from my observations there is an increasing number of .co.za sites that are being hosted offshore and there is absolutely no financial incentive to do otherwise.

Local ISP's could probably save thousands in international bandwidth costs by encouraging overseas hosted South African sites to move their hosting onto local servers.
 
Uncapped local did not hang around long enough for us to get the proxy servers running properly.
Oh ... wait ...
As soon as it looked like we were going to get the local proxy servers up and running ... booom .. uncapped local dissapeared.
 
well, i can tell you for a fact that visiting sites hosted locally (i.e. in SA) from here in Ireland is a pain, they are consistently slower than any international sites. I'm having nightmares about returning home already... local vs. international. WTF.

And just to REALLY pi55 everyone off...
One of my clan-mates just got 100Mbs in his home in Sweden. He's paying about a $30 per month.

From wikipedia:

In Sweden, household broadband is mainly available through cable (in speeds of 128 kbps to 24 Mbps) and ADSL (256 kbps to 24 Mbps), but in many places also through copper Ethernet LAN networked via fibre MANs connecting buildings. Symmetric broadband Internet access of 100 Mbps is available for USD 24 a month, as of March 2007. In Lund, one service offers 1 Gbit/s connections.



ghaaaaaa...
 
This local content should not only be local websites serving the local community, but should include companies like Yahoo or Google moving their point of presence to South Africa.
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Yes Google, please keep a cached copy of the entire internet in SA.

bwana said:
Sure - now if we can convince the likes of YouTube, MySpace, Digg, Google, CNN, . . . . all to move to SA we can have real internet access.
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Or that.

O_o
 
Oh and much as I appreciate and respect and love MyADSL for everything it stands for ...

The problems associated with South Africa’s geographic location and the related international bandwidth predicament was recently highlighted by Telkom’s Steven Hayward, pointing to the limitations that this scenario brings to broadband offerings.
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Please don't state Telkom's propaganda like it's true and factual.

Australia's broadband is "a disgrace" despite the fact that they are many times cheaper, many times faster and many times further removed from the rest of the world.
 
neio said:
We just need a big cache server in SA, pref in the terabyte capacity.
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Whats makes u htink it does not exist already ? I mean Telkom has a few transparent proxies in place, I think currently they doing everything needed for cheaper interent but charging premium.
 
This is pathetic, the nature of the internet is global, we don't want to be stuck on some dumb glorified SA intranet.
 
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