Why is Openserve the most expensive

[cavedog]

And IPC is expensive because ... it does nation-wide transport supporting users in 100 cities and towns. Also note that the IPC costs apply equally to DSL and Fibre, so until Fibre subscriber numbers pass DSL on Openserve, the IPC price will be higher than it should be (than if there were only Fibre), but will reduce as adoption increases.

Openserve fibre is available in over 20 different towns and cities at the same price everywhere. Vumatel et al are available in about 5 cities. Their costs will most lilely increase as they support more deployments outside the major metros.

Yes I saw Openserve fibre in the small town Empangeni in KZN. Pretty impressed by that actually.

 

[supersunbird]

Is this still true?

So I can get the fibre from Openserve with a really low cap and then buy extra bandwidth from an ISP? It just allows me to use it via a PPPOE connection?

No, you cannot directly be an Openserve customer (they are not a retail provider). You get your Openserve fibre line through your ISP, in areas where Openserve fibre has been rolled out.

 

[ponder]

Hey Ranger but the networks guy you are does GPON not have limiting bandwidth capabilities? Bandwidth requirements will just increase in the future so you will end off adding more and more OLTs which could get costly?

There was a long thread here somewhere and the bottom line was it's not really an issue. Telkom is already on 200Mb/s, the technology attached to the fibre improves with time and economies of scale come into play. You're worrying about things that will probably never affect you, the vast majority of ftth deployments around the world are gpon.

 

[cavedog]

There was a long thread here somewhere and the bottom line was it's not really an issue. Telkom is already on 200Mb/s, the technology attached to the fibre improves with time and economies of scale come into play. You're worrying about things that will probably never affect you, the vast majority of ftth deployments around the world are gpon.

I'm not worrying just thinking that it might be a point of congestion in the future. You can imagine that when 200Mbps users start filling up an OLT speeds during peak time will slow down.

I'm also on a GPON with Aeonova360 btw

 

[EasyUp Web Hosting]

Vodacom is also GPON.

 

[Nookie]

Openserv is ****. GPON network compared to AE network. Use them only until you can jump onto Vumatel or Frogfoot or something.

Nothing wrong with GPON.

 

[Gaz{M}]

No, GPON is future proof. 10GPON is out already and there will be future increases in speed too. You can upgrade the uplink ports to 10Gig or 40Gig or 100Gig when that becomes available.

Even AE can become "congested" if the uplink port is congested.

You can also easily change the split ratio on GPON by adding another backhaul fibre and changing the split ratio from say 32 to 16 people and immediately double the capacity.

 

[EasyUp Web Hosting]

Okay, so I just want to add. I just did a comparison with Axxess OS 100/50 and Vodacom 100/50 and yes, they are freaking expensive. :wtf:

Axxess 100/50 with 1TB cap = R2239
Vodacom 100/50 with 1TB = R1512 (M2M)

Axxess 100/50 Home uncapped = R1419 (Threshold 300GB)
Axxess 100/50 Premium uncapped = R1719
Axxess 100/50 Premium Plus uncapped = R2219
Vodacom 100/50 Uncapped = R1613 (M2M) (Threshold 2.2TB)

I will stop complaining about VC's prices.