{"id":16197,"date":"2010-10-28T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-28T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T11:25:00","slug":"mweb-transit-changes-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/16197-mweb-transit-changes-started.html","title":{"rendered":"MWEB transit changes started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/16009-will-not-pay-you-one-single-cent-for-transit-anymore-MWEB-CEO.html\">MWEB recently announced<\/a> that they will sever their local transit over SAIX, starting today, essentially <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/16171-MWEB-cuts-local-transit-links-The-peering-war-begins.html\">cutting off local connectivity<\/a> to MTN, Vodacom and any other ISP not currently peering with MWEB.<\/p>\n<p>Early next week it will be Telkom&rsquo;s turn and will Telkom either have to peer for free or be in the same boat as MTN, Vodacom and other ISPs not peering directly with MWEB.<\/p>\n<p>Many Internet users have anxiously been waiting to see what the effect of these severed transit links would be. The repercussions should start to show later today [28 October, 2010].<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We kick-started the process about half an hour ago [around 12:00 on 28 October] &#8211; i.e. making the configuration changes, advertising the new routes etc. You will probably only start seeing the effect during the course of the afternoon,&rdquo; said MWEB ISP CEO Derek Hershaw.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that Internet traffic will be routed internationally to go from MWEB to providers which do not peer with them and vice-versa.<\/p>\n<p>Hershaw previously explained that MWEB will not &lsquo;black hole&rsquo; any local ISP&rsquo;s traffic. &ldquo;We will simply be rerouting traffic away from congested and very expensive local transit links to our international bandwidth, which is significantly cheaper and not congested,&rdquo; said Hershaw.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently not clear how Vodacom, MTN and Telkom will respond to MWEB&rsquo;s &lsquo;peer-or-bust&rsquo; strategy.&nbsp; These companies were contacted for comment, but no feedback was received by the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/279715-MWEB-peering-changes-begin-fallout-imminent\" target=\"_self\" title=\"MWEB transit changes started\"><strong>MWEB transit changes started<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MWEB started making the configuration changes which will see terminating local transit routes to MTN and Vodacom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}