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local content FTW! :)

I love that we have these servers. I have pulled a fair amount from them myself. Linux distros, OpenOffice, Firefox, etc. Would love to see plenty more OpenSource on them... Maybe one day a SourceForge Mirror! ;)
 
I agree - great work from Tenet to make this service available and doing it well! Some serious Bandwidth and Hardware they have invested in.
 
Good on them :) Wish they'd host some games xD The downloads are killing me!
 
Thumbs up.
Were it not for them, OpenSource would cost more in bandwidth than just buying "Closed Source" products...
 
I've used thier services for a long time now, and it has really made a difference in retrieving open source software. Big thanks goes out to those involved!
 
A few minor facts about the bandwidth....

...or their 10Gbps Jo'burg metro network

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=112519
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*Laugh* umm just to correct this slightly, that metro network is not technically a 10gig. On that metro network, there is currently 20gig lit, within the next 2 weeks I expect, it will actually have 60 or 70gig lit on it. (Its 10gig per major campus in each direction on the ring, for redundancy + 10gig on the shared ring for the smaller campuses + 10gig lambda dedicated for another 10gig circuit coming in elsewhere). The 10gig connection however to the Johannesburg mirror server, when the article referred to 10gig backbone, thats 10gig peering circuit to I.S + 1gig peering circuit to JINX (hopefully to be upgraded to 10gig shortly, soon as the switch is available), so technically its 10gig out of the router, plugged into 11gig of national traffic, shortly 20, and plugged into a combined backbone speed of almost 100gigabit.
 
interesting and useful by the looks of it

what else can it be used for? p2p?
 
:) The decision on what the pipes are used for is up to the individual institutions, TENET doesn't touch traffic at a > L3 level, and doesnt do any firewalling, its simply bandwidth, the rest is left to the institution receiving the pipe :)
 
I love their mirrors, with all the ubuntu updates that are being pushed, we would have been paying lots of $$$ if it wasn't for them.

Just wish they would fix their PHP mirror though.
 
Garyvdh said:
Maybe one day a SourceForge Mirror! ;)
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I have asked for that but until Seacom lands they are unlikely to be able to fulfill the bandwidth requirements to keep it up to date. :cool:
 
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