{"id":546693,"date":"2005-08-24T23:30:25","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T23:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/546693-telkom-and-is-peering-link-debacle.html"},"modified":"2005-08-24T23:30:25","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T23:30:25","slug":"telkom-and-is-peering-link-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/546693-telkom-and-is-peering-link-debacle.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom and IS peering link debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">IS has received singular reports of congestion on their system and for the past year have tried to get SAIX (Telkom\u2019s Internet branch that sells international bandwidth) to upgrade the system.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The problem might be partly related to the peering link (the pipe connecting IS directly to SAIX) between IS and SAIX. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">There is congestion on the peering link and SAIX refuse to upgrade the link because they state that the traffic from IS\u2019s ADSL users is not peering traffic according to Geoff Rehmet, IS\u2019s new product development specialist.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Rehmet stated that Telkom\u2019s policy of distinguishing between peering and non-peering traffic is \u201cwithout precedent overseas\u201d and that should they continue with this policy the user will be forced to pay unnecessary additional costs.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cWe are doing our best to manage the issue but the only way to resolve it is to get Telkom to upgrade the link which we have been trying to do for the past year,\u201d stated Rehmet.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The battle to upgrade the peering link between IS and SAIX is ongoing and whilst many of the contentious issues have been resolved there are still outstanding matters.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The resolution of these issues is imminent according to Rehmet although the exact deadline is hard to provide at this point in the negotiations.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"2\">Mr. Rehmet pointed out that system problems, international bandwidth issues and problems with provisioning of the Telkom IPC for our ADSL users are most likely the main reasons for any IS ADSL related problems.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>The peering link debacle is however not helping IS in the quest to improve the service for their ADSL customers.<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Solutions (IS) customers on the MyADSL forum have reported degraded performance with their connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546693"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}