10 Gbps network goes live

This is really great news. Congratulations to Sanren, TENET, Meraka and Neotel for moving so fast on this!
 
Yes, and how does this make 'my' life better?

I'm not being sarcastic, I'm actually asking... so I have a reason to be happy too! :D
 
This marks a key change in the research and development community in South Africa, and is set to place local research and development on par with the best in the world.
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I think that this is a little premature. You need more than bandwidth...
 
pkid said:
I think that this is a little premature. You need more than bandwidth...
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Agreed, but it is certainly a big step forward. Universities struggled for many years with very limited bandwidth and this was definitely a much needed boost. I guess you can tell I used to be one of the poor bandwidth starved University employees :D
 
Used to rpm?

And here I was planning on coming to UP just so you could be one of my lecturers and I could be all cool on here and stuff :p

Congrats to the guys tho, its been a long time coming.
 
While this development is unequivocally a good thing ...
and is set to place local research and development on par with the best in the world.
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... excuse me while I snort milk out my nose.
 
Could the SNO please hook up my place of work with the same setup - cos I'm gonna moer a PC across the floor!

FFS my damn 384k line at home is more responsive! :mad:

Haha on my 384k line, I was downloading at 70-80kbps last night and 40-50kbps during the day :D :D
I must have gotten lucky or the wrong info was spewing from my PC :p :D
 
UP management will probably only hear about this in 5 years. Their useless intranet won't be able to benefit from increased outside capacity anyway. It will only crash.
 
The four sites are the main campuses of Wits; UJ; and two of UJ’s satellite campuses, Bunting and Doornfontein.
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This is great news--especially for our many underprivileged students. :) I'm a student at the Doornfontein campus--and saw them laying "dark fiber" late last year some time. They routed the road next to the varsity, laid the fiber and tarred it all up in one day! Just proves how things can get going at a faster pace when it needs to.
 
rpm said:
Agreed, but it is certainly a big step forward. Universities struggled for many years with very limited bandwidth and this was definitely a much needed boost. I guess you can tell I used to be one of the poor bandwidth starved University employees :D
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True. I hope that this is a catalyst for better and bigger things in our varsities. I think that in South Africa we have a lot of potential...
 
fskmh said:
Well it certainly won't be accomplished without it.
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True, but it won't be accomplished AT ALL if we assume that merely having such a link puts as anywhere near "on par" with leading international research. On the contrary, over two years ago already German researchers were transmitting 2.56 terabits/second over fiber (http://www.physorg.com/news62776076.html). You cannot even start to be "on par", let alone lead, unless you are willing to admit how far behind you REALLY are, with no hint of denial.
 
That's 10Gbps local right? What portion of that is international ?
 
Turtle said:
True, but it won't be accomplished AT ALL if we assume that merely having such a link puts as anywhere near "on par" with leading international research. On the contrary, over two years ago already German researchers were transmitting 2.56 terabits/second over fiber (http://www.physorg.com/news62776076.html). You cannot even start to be "on par", let alone lead, unless you are willing to admit how far behind you REALLY are, with no hint of denial.
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You don't have to cite web pages at me, I've been regarding our European colleagues on GÉANT with envy for some years now while waiting for SANReN.
At least there have been developments, even at NWU ;).

I am looking forward to downloading from the Tenet mirror and other uni-s during the day without being charged the same rate as for int. traffic.
Now we just need those undersea cables, (hands off Ivy) :).
 
Neotel march 2007 then march 2008 now we all march clowns they are (i just got home stuck in traffic for 1h15 and very p!ssed off sorry)
 
good for them! i wonder if i can go live on campus now
 
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