Neotel in action!

ld13 said:
A few pics would be nice

*hint*hint*
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As soon as they start chopping in front of my building I will snap away for you guys....... I will try get:

*DIGGING
*PIPING
*FIBRES

watch this space.....
 
The pavement\grass outside my house is all dug up but I think it's Telkom starting to lay fibre and not Neotel. At my Gran's retirement place not too far from us Telkom are already using fibre and when she asked the techy why he said it is because their copper cables are stolen so much that they finally decided to replace with fibre. Apparently she can't do an ADSL self install now because of the fibre but I still have to get my head around that statement as the telephone jack and everything still looks the same according to her.

Outside my house there are areas where copper cable once was and is now cut (Stolen). So I think they laying fibre by us as well. Unfortunately they just dug up the land, went ape, and now left without finishing the job. Sand and big holes everywhere and still no cables. And also still no ADSL for me after more than 2 weeks :( to think I paid WebAfrica for a 10Gig International account I can't use :mad: what a waste
 
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Along the whole of Republic Rd and William Nicol and Main Rd I have seen them digging up. They even have their little sign saying, 'Neotel at work' every couple of metres... All they seem to be doing now is laying the orange piping underground. I'll take a pic today and post it up later...
 
OK. Arrived at work with no action going on.

But then....

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Orange Cones all down the road in the first picture - while two cones can be seen in front of our premises. No digging as yet - will keep you posted!

PS: Why doesn't my
 
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And the digging begins.... next door:

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There are a heck of a lot of staff digging - I could only capture half of them on my terrible blurry Nokia N80 camera!

Will keep watching......
 
ajax said:
Waroop, when can we expect ADSL accounts from Webafrica with Neotel??
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I guess as soon as they start offering them (properly), and we've had a month or so to test them :)
 
know the guy's who drilll the hole's underneath the road for neotel. And it sounds as though neotel is working at first world pace getting their optic underneath Pretoria. Look I dont know how much they are going to charge once they go online, but I have a hunch that the speed and quality of the conection will blow us away..or lets pray it does :D
 
Well from what I have been watching all day - they are mighty fast at digging trenches and laying the pipes....... I mean they have 30 guys digging in one long line here... incredible!

Potential for good things!
 
::UPDATE::

Walked up to one of the guys in charge (he wasn't holding a pick or a spade!) and started chatting. This is what I learned:

They are laying Fibre as has been mentioned - he says 96 individual fibres. I mentioned 48 pairs and he said no - no need for pairs (this is new to me - i've only seen pairs)

Then he said Neotel is only rolling out the fibre for big business - smaller users will utilise WIFI for voice and data.

He said that they have finished rolling out Cape Town and Port Elizabeth and they will be finished in East London in the next 2 weeks. They are currently putting in the pipes in my street and the fibre will come 2 weeks later.

He then said that Neotel already has their own undersea cable all setup and ready to go (I think this is BS - I mean they only just started rolling out the second South African undersea cable as far as I have read)

He mentioned something about voice calls to anywhere in the world for 35 cents per minutes.

Thoughts?
 
flashsa said:
He then said that Neotel already has their own undersea cable all setup and ready to go (I think this is BS - I mean they only just started rolling out the second South African undersea cable as far as I have read)
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The SAT3 Cable. ;)
 
flashsa said:
He said that they have finished rolling out Cape Town and Port Elizabeth and they will be finished in East London in the next 2 weeks. They are currently putting in the pipes in my street and the fibre will come 2 weeks later.
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What about Durban? I can't believe that they would roll out PE before Durban. When did the guy think that all their CDMA base station would be finished? Fibre is all very well but as consumers we still need them to finish their last mile stuff...
 
I think Durban might be done as well or near finishing... he rattled off several cities.....

He said the inter-city links are already complete. He did not mention anything about how close we are to WIFI for us small end users..... I think they want to land Big Business on first. He did say they were already planning fibre drops whereever the 96 fibre core went past a big business client who had already signed up.
 
I have a question with regards to capacity on this network. I read somewhere else that they say they have 10 gb/s capacity on their network. I don't think that is actually a lot of capacity if you think about it. How do they upgrade their capacity? Is it just a case of upgrading the routers etc or will they have to lay new cable?
 
10gb/s capacity for a national telecoms operator is nothing... they will be needing terabit stuff for their backbone.
 
pkid said:
I have a question with regards to capacity on this network. I read somewhere else that they say they have 10 gb/s capacity on their network. I don't think that is actually a lot of capacity if you think about it. How do they upgrade their capacity? Is it just a case of upgrading the routers etc or will they have to lay new cable?
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To say that they have 10Gbps capacity on the network is a bit arbitrary - its like saying that SA has 4 lane roads... its very true but only in specific locations.

10Gbps is a fairly acceptable speed for a single fibre so if they are laying bundles then it will be multiples of that. The fibre optic terminators are improving all the time and should support higher speeds in the coming years. They would not need to dig up all the roads again to upgrade - probably just new terminators and some new fibre pulled through their ducts.

I would expect that the 10Gbps capacity comment indicates that they can supply a single point-to-point link between any 2 locations in the country with up to 10Gbps capacity - that would make more sense.
 
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