Surging Demand Forces Sat3 Cable To Upgrade

[rpm]

http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=674

 

[doobiwan]

Anyone got an idea of what they're upgrading the capacity to and how long it'll take?

 

[Perdition]

Also who is using the capacity cause it sure as hell ain't us.

 

[Highflyer_GP]

so currently it has the potential for 30 million 1mbit connections to be used simultaneously at full throttle? yet they feel so proud that sa has 100 thousand users (most of who cannot afford a 1mbit cxn), and that bandwidth is a priviledge hmmm makes you wonder...

 

[Hellhound]

Mmmm... correct me if I'm wrong but 30gigabits is 30000megabits so in reality it can handle 30000 1mbit accounts running non stop also this excludes the diginet lines and other data that travels over the cable.However there should be a 50:1 contention on this bandwidth so the maximum users should be around 1.5million if all that bandwidth is for ADSL

Regards
Hellhound a.k.a Cerberus

 

[RoosTa]

But they also have voice transmitting over the same line.

 

[controlc]

Huh? The 1st link says that sat3 = 120Gb and SAFE runs at 130Gb, the second link says SAFE runs at 30Gb? Am I missing something here?

 

[Slinky511nx7]

Huh? The 1st link says that sat3 = 120Gb and SAFE runs at 130Gb, the second link says SAFE runs at 30Gb? Am I missing something here?

Yip, about 100Gb. LOL

 

[Perdition]

Huh? The 1st link says that sat3 = 120Gb and SAFE runs at 130Gb, the second link says SAFE runs at 30Gb? Am I missing something here?

The 120Gb and 130Gb figures are the ultimate capacity ratings for the links not the current ratings.

 

[MaD]

The 30Gbps can handle more than 30,000 1mbps connection - with a contention of 30:1 it can do 900,000 1Mbps connections without breaking a sweat.

 

[doobiwan]

The 120/130Gb capacities are the total capacity of the cables. The 30Gb is approximately Telkoms percent.

 

[krycor]

do they even still transmit voice in analogue form ? wouldn't make cents..

 

[controlc]

The 120/130Gb capacities are the total capacity of the cables. The 30Gb is approximately Telkoms percent.

Are you sure?
The second link says "the upgrade will triple the cable system's existing capacity from 30 to 90 Gbit/sec". To me that's a pretty clear indication that the *entire* cable runs at 30GB, not just telkom's share.

 

[MaD]

What they do with these cables is expand the capacity as time goes on instead of lighting up the whole thing and having vast unused capacity lying around. Lighting up dark fibre isn't a cheap exercise so as demand grows more of it will be lit up.

The ultimate capacity of SAT3 is 120Gbps (http://www.safe-sat3.co.za/SystemInformation/SystemInformation.asp - beware its a farking horrible site).