10 Gbps DFA-Tenet-Seacom network goes live

10 Gbps DFA-Tenet-Seacom network goes live

DFA unlocks high speed bandwidth for research institutions in SA's fastest fibre rollout ever

This is somewhat of a surprise - great to see these developments.

Told you so

So when can UCT have some more bandwidth? its painfull at the best of times.

Scooby_Doo said:

So when can UCT have some more bandwidth? its painfull at the best of times.

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It is not long now Expect from announcement regarding research institutions soon...

rpm said:

It is not long now Expect from announcement regarding research institutions soon...

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nice, doing research through UCT is painfull during peak times, you spend more time waiting for documents to download than anything else.

Lets hope it improves tomorrow

Beautiful.

Although it's been a long time in coming... and now it's here at long last.

rpm said:

10 Gbps DFA-Tenet-Seacom network goes live

DFA unlocks SA's fastest fibre rollout ever

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And not a Telkom in sight ...

So this will benefit most uni's in SA i am assuming? I remember at the beginning of the year at Rhodes, the chairman announced that later in the year we (at the uni) can expect a great increase in speeds and capacity. Is this what he was talking about asides from obviously Seacom?

Cool. This is definitely a noteworthy development.

UFS is getting a 700Mbps connection that's being connected at the end of next month. Other uni's are getting similar connections.

Yeah, would be really interested to know when the increased bandwidth will come into effect at UCT? Also, what speed connections do the institutions have to TENET? If TENET gets 10Gbps more bandwidth, that's not particularly useful if the <institution-name> - TENET connection is already saturated.

Very interesting looking at a traceroute from the US to Tenet, it actually looks like they are using only layer 2 all the way from JHB to London. I can't tell whether this went over Seacom or not, so who knows, its still interesting though.

2 gi0-8.na21.b019158-0.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.101.225.9) 0.989 ms 0.716 ms 0.990 ms
3 gi1-12.3561.ccr01.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.20.37.57) 0.741 ms 0.980 ms 0.740 ms
4 * * *
5 * * te4-1.mpd01.dca02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.182) 13.950 ms
6 te3-2.ccr02.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.26.90) 14.618 ms te3-1.ccr02.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.26.86) 13.546 ms te4-1.ccr02.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.158) 13.629 ms
7 verio.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.12.238) 13.938 ms * 14.850 ms
8 ae-2.r20.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.86) 13.715 ms 13.492 ms 14.262 ms
9 as-0.r21.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.8) 20.651 ms 19.963 ms 20.212 ms
10 ae-0.r20.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.25) 19.757 ms 22.736 ms 19.486 ms
11 as-1.r22.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.255) 93.150 ms 93.405 ms 93.634 ms
12 po-2.r00.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.78) 95.950 ms 93.386 ms 93.665 ms
13 xe-3-1.r00.londen05.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.47) 93.707 ms 93.362 ms 93.667 ms
14 tenet-0.r00.londen05.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (83.231.146.66) 98.689 ms 98.654 ms 99.403 ms
15 unknown.uni.net.za (196.32.209.37) 268.325 ms 269.015 ms 268.797 ms
16 unknown.uni.net.za (155.232.191.233) 267.041 ms 266.544 ms 267.079 ms


2 gi0-8.na21.b019158-0.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.101.225.9) 0.697 ms 1.181 ms 2.973 ms
3 gi1-27.3861.ccr01.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.112.38.13) 0.965 ms 0.845 ms 0.719 ms
4 * * *
5 te4-3.mpd01.dca02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.2) 13.428 ms * *
6 te8-3.ccr02.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.26.134) 14.212 ms te8-1.ccr02.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.162) 13.955 ms te3-2.ccr02.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.26.90) 14.485 ms
7 * * *
8 ae-2.r20.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.86) 14.519 ms 13.960 ms 14.235 ms
9 as-0.r21.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.8) 19.974 ms 19.975 ms 19.978 ms
10 ae-0.r20.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.25) 19.979 ms 20.724 ms 19.731 ms
11 as-1.r22.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.255) 93.436 ms 93.429 ms 93.687 ms
12 po-2.r00.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.78) 109.676 ms 301.825 ms 94.418 ms
13 xe-3-1.r00.londen05.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.47) 96.895 ms 617.619 ms 117.164 ms
14 tenet-0.r00.londen05.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (83.231.146.66) 107.381 ms 98.903 ms 99.679 ms
15 unknown.uni.net.za (196.32.209.26) 247.368 ms 247.575 ms 247.579 ms
16 mastiff-camembert.uni.net.za (155.232.145.229) 244.336 ms 244.047 ms 244.367 ms
17 c00063.uni.net.za (155.232.144.78) 250.277 ms 249.308 ms 250.095 ms
18 pyroteichos.uct.ac.za (137.158.253.17) 245.563 ms 244.824 ms 244.839 ms

Messugga said:

UFS is getting a 700Mbps connection that's being connected at the end of next month. Other uni's are getting similar connections.

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I'm going to love my staff account very soon
My 4Mbit at home is faster than the connection I get at the lab

UCT: http://monitor.net.tenet.ac.za/cacti/graph_view.php?action=tree&tree_id=3&leaf_id=94
Rhodes: http://monitor.net.tenet.ac.za/cacti/graph_view.php?action=tree&tree_id=3&leaf_id=464

Scooby_Doo said:

So when can UCT have some more bandwidth? its painfull at the best of times.

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Yeah, I could probably go to Wynberg Home Affairs and get a new ID (if I wanted to) before some big .pdf loads at UCT . The only time that I have seen it speed along is between 7 and 8am

this sucks, just after I leave uni then they gonna get fast, cheap bandwidth I even put in an extra year in anticipation of this

Stellenbosch network rocked.Sure there is going to be even more now on if people can dowload things cheaply.It was pretty cheap when i was there

bekdik said:

And not a Telkom in sight ...

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Fastest rollout... There's your answer... 2km a day. too fast for Tel-what-was-it-again...