Vumatel 10Gbps still in development phase - testing going well

[Jan]

Vumatel testing 10 Gbps fibre

Vumatel says its 10 Gbps fibre offering is still under development, but testing is going well.

The fibre network operator initially announced plans to launch 10 Gbps services in March 2021, saying the commercial launch would follow a month-long testing phase with Cool Ideas.

 

[quovadis]

Someone please share this with Openserve... 1000/500 is now overdue

 

[Nephew_]

Please, first cover all the areas still without fibre.

 

[wingnut771]

First, bring your entry level prices in line with other FNO’s like Openserve and Metrofibre.

 

[Joseph matane]

Please, first cover all the areas still without fibre.

Least have limited footprint in 50% of all SA town's then go back to 10Gbps line
Is quite clear Vuma/Voda is going to just upgrade infrastructure in areas which already have Optical Fibre Cables on the ground

 

[quovadis]

Least have limited footprint in 50% of all SA town's then go back to 10Gbps line
Is quite clear Vuma/Voda is going to just upgrade infrastructure in areas which already have Optical Fibre Cables on the ground

They'll go wherever there is demand and feasibility.

 

[Joseph matane]

They'll go wherever there is demand and feasibility.

True that's why I didn't say all towns but don't icasa in force this obligations to connect unconnected or everything is left to Mobile Network Operators?
I think if MNO has to cover 99% geo population with 5G before 2030
FNO need to cover 49% of geo population with FTTH no matter is standard FTTH or subsidized FTTH
This rule will take all FNO's footprint into account meaning the rule will calculate all footprint from FNO'S and turn it into one coverage footprint to conclude 49% rule

 

[My_King]

Lets await the "Why do we even need this" comments.

 

[metadevj]

Vuma is using Active Ethernet technology over CWDM over SM fibre, so for them, the only challenges are the cost of SFPs and CPE Routers (although CCR with SFP+ cages is super cheap) and upgrading of POP backhaul and CORE. These are relatively incremental changes that can be phased in.

For the other incumbent, Telkom using GPON connected to MSANs, 1G per customer is already maxing out 50% of GPON port making provision more costly.

10G should be enough for "Metaverse" and my Linux isos

 

[dualmeister]

Lets await the "Why do we even need this" comments.

If you have a small wiener?

 

[SpiderGear]

Price will probably be exorbitant!

but I still want it..

 

[quovadis]

Vuma is using Active Ethernet technology over CWDM over SM fibre, so for them, the only challenges are the cost of SFPs and CPE Routers (although CCR with SFP+ cages is super cheap) and upgrading of POP backhaul and CORE. These are relatively incremental changes that can be phased in.

For the other incumbent, Telkom using GPON connected to MSANs, 1G per customer is already maxing out 50% of GPON port making provision more costly.

10G should be enough for "Metaverse" and my Linux isos

I believe Vuma has a mix of active and passive. I would imagine though that their effective contention ratio from customer to core is not much different between the two technologies. As for Telkom they could migrate to faster GPON standards eg. 40gbit/s NGPON2 in the future or 10gbit/s in the short term.

 

[2025]

Lets await the "Why do we even need this" comments.

Share the 10Gbps with your local WUG?

 

[quovadis]

Share the 10Gbps with your local WUG?

Besides the legality - what kind of wifi are these guys using these days that'd see that throughput?

 

[6spdmanual]

Knowing Vumatel, it will probably cost R11 000 per month.

 

[labratza]

WUG. What happened to those days

 

[Kloofvreter]

Vumatel's po3s

 

[Kloofvreter]

WUG. What happened to those days

Yeah, that was awesome, but the handful of pricks that were in charge ruined it for me a few years back recently.