{"id":173850,"date":"2016-08-01T07:15:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T05:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=173850"},"modified":"2016-08-01T12:03:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T10:03:47","slug":"when-is-data-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/industrynews\/173850-when-is-data-fast.html","title":{"rendered":"When is Data fast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the confusion over cellular data use, many users forget that <a href=\"http:\/\/telemasters.co.za\/solutions\/\" target=\"_blank\">fibre and fibre-like services<\/a> to business are completely differently priced than their cellular counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The figures that we use to depict data are the speed of the line\u201d says Mario Pretorius, CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/telemasters.co.za\/solutions\/\" target=\"_blank\">TeleMasters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u201c20meg\u201d often touted is actually 20MB per second of speed and not 20MB of usage. It is of vital importance to note that cellular users buy size, fixed line users buy speed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked to explain the difference, he compared usage and speed to water and a straw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt TeleMasters we have uncapped and unshaped data. It\u2019s like having a sea of data at your disposal. The speed with which you suck it up is determined by the size of the straw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this way, a 100Mbps sized straw will suck five times faster than a 20Mbps straw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut this is only part of the story\u201d says Noreen Delport, head of the Project Team at TeleMasters.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, there are three more crucial factors affecting speed: The contentions at the access fibre and at the the ISP and finally the number of users at the site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA 100 Mbps line may sound fast, but if it is contended 10 to 1 at the ISP, another 10:1 of the line (where it may be shared with other users) and finally arrive at the desk of one of 10 employees, the speed may be as slow as 1\/10 Mbps or 100kbps. That\u2019s really stone-age crawling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The answer is to calculate the offer of a data provider to the speed at the desk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example\u201d Delport continues \u201cour TeleMasters client gets his 100Mbps contended at 5 to 1 at our own ISP, no line contention and the 10 man company gets 2Mbps at the desk at the cost of half a cappuccino per day \u2013 ever day with free refills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot overemphasise the importance of data speed in the competitive enterprise,\u201d Pretorius concluded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only is the user liberated to be productive, but the enterprise gets geared up to reap the benefits of all the cloud-based solution we offer. Fast data is only fast when calculated to the user\u2019s desk, else it\u2019s only a misinterpreted figure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the confusion over cellular data use, many users forget that fibre and fibre-like services to business are completely differently priced than their cellular counterpart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340989,"featured_media":174070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28937],"tags":[35,7975],"class_list":["post-173850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industrynews","tag-headline","tag-telemasters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173850"}],"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\/340989"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}