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I was discussing this with one of evotel fiber tech recently,he said that most of long distance connections are still runs on telkoms old copper lines.

Which fiber provider uses end to end fiber line and not dependent on copper.
Anyone has more info.

 

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I was discussing this with one of evotel fiber tech recently,he said that most of long distance connections are still runs on telkoms old copper lines.

Which fiber provider uses end to end fiber line and not dependent on copper.
Anyone has more info.

I think they either trying to blame something on Telkom or got wires crossed.
Copper hasn't been used on long distance routers for a good few decades.
Even before wide spread fibre there was coax (which is copper but not in the sense we think about it) and microwave
There is simply not enough bandwidth on copper anymore on long distances.

Look at the Telkom Map.

The biggest fibre networks in South Africa

These are the largest fibre network operators (FNOs) in South Africa based on kilometres of cable they have rolled out.

mybroadband.co.za

 

[portcullis]

There's no copper on any of the NLD routes in South Africa.

There is, however long range wireless on some of the Openserve legacy routes through the Northern Cape between van Rhynsdorp and Kimberley.

Our customers know when a generator at Leeu Gamka runs out of diesel, a manhole at Worcester is broken into or a portion of the overhead fibre near Bloemfontein is stolen, as the ping times jump from around 16ms to over 150ms.

An ISP will buy a NLD from Openserve, Liquid, DFA, BBI, Seacom etc, but there's a strong chance the company the ISP is buying from only owns part of the link with other parts of the link being bought from other companies. Then, in order to provide redundancy, those links will again be mixed and matched.

 

[Quintrix]

I was discussing this with one of evotel fiber tech recently,he said that most of long distance connections are still runs on telkoms old copper lines.

Which fiber provider uses end to end fiber line and not dependent on copper.
Anyone has more info.

The only thing that still "runs" on Telkom's old copper lines are the communal birds nests. And -it seems- some ISP's blame game .