SNO Backbone ...just curious?

[Lord Anubis]

Ok so there are a lot of posts about Saix and IS being slow and saturated etc.

Will the SNO be using either of these backbones and if so what relief if any can the SNO bring besides price if its reliant on these to build its infrastructure on.

The reason I ask is that when Cell-C came on the scene it rode on the shoulders of Vodacom and MTN's networks. Nothing really changed much on the cell scene except some ingenious ways of paying for the same services.

It seems that no matter who or what happens in the coming year we will continue to have slow, unreliable, saturated networks because there simply is nothing lse to do but cut the pie into further pieces.

I'd really like to know what the SNO can offer (theoretically) thats better or different (forget the price issues)

 

[JStrike]

It has been discussed many times here in the past. Best bet is to search the forums. But the SNO has it's own network that it has laid over the last couple of years. Shiny modern goodness

 

[MaD]

The SNO has thousands of km of fibre and microwave links, and a sizable amount of available bandwidth. They also don't have all the old delapidated exchanges and copper wires rotting everywhere around the country.. new and improved equipment while Telkom struggles to migrate to IP-based network and are spending billions upon billions to do it.

 

[Gnome]

I think you have a very valid point and the only shiny ray of light at the end of the tunnel would be LLU.

 

[Tux]

...Telkom struggles to migrate to IP-based network and are spending billions upon billions to do it.

While telkom screw us out of the billions to do it I'd say.

 

[MaD]

While telkom screw us out of the billions to do it I'd say.

Yes, and also the people who pay most are the people who don't even have access to telecommunications.

 

[SideWinder]

OK, it seems the SNO's core is done, as per this thread, so the problem that remains is ACCESS, something I think the SNO's will have in short supply for some time, but hopefully IS, UUNET, MTN etc is high enough on their list to service.

I also think customers other than these mentioned above are going to wait a long time for service. So prepare yourself.

 

[Rkootknir]

I think you have a very valid point and the only shiny ray of light at the end of the tunnel would be LLU.

I'm not sure about this, but I heard that the SNO was going to use WIMAX for last mile connectivity...

LLU will only be along in at least 2 year's time.

 

[krycor]

I'm still waiting to see how they gonna get int access.

 

[Gnome]

I'm not sure about this, but I heard that the SNO was going to use WIMAX for last mile connectivity...

LLU will only be along in at least 2 year's time.

Sorry I should have made plainer what I ment to say, if the goverment allowed LLU IT WOULD be the light at the end of the tunnel. I am pretty sure they will try to stall LLU for as long as possible.

After 2 years they'll probably just make another excuse and up it another 2 years...