10 Gbps Telkom SaNREN network details

Telkom stood out in terms of technical merit and cost.

“Numerous aspects were considered, but the award was made primarily based on the technical merit of the response and financial considerations. Telkom scored very well on both and won the tender on merit,” said Kuun.
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Wunderbar

moggie said:
Did you read the article?
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Yup -- a really positive note :) ( and some money being well spent )

[Depends though on how the end users are going to shape up :confused::erm:]
[Like I said in another post -- send your kids to Uni :D ]


SEACOM -- SaNREN ( SANRen ) -- TENET -- TELKOM = <thumbs up >

If these guys can do it then ............

WHERE are the commercial ISP's :confused:


SlowJoe -- please tell us some more about the termination in Durban ( Umhlanga)

MW
 
MidnightWizard said:
SlowJoe -- please tell us some more about the termination in Durban ( Umhlanga)

MW
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Sure, though I need to stress, TENET's Seacom bandwidth does not terminate in Umhlanga, it terminates at our point of presence kindly hosted by one of the Durban University of Technology campuses. There is an optical amplifier in Umhlanga used to amplify the optical signal coming from Mtunzini because of the distance (While it is possible to single hop the 152 kilometers, its not advisable if you want scalability and plan to add more wavelengths etc).

The DFA fiber runs from the landing station, to Umhlanga, to our point of presence, at those 3 points there is DWDM equipment, and that lights the fiber itself in a series of wavelengths (up to 160 waves on a fiber dependant on how you populate the DWDM equipment, for obvious reasons we have no need of 160 waves YET!)

The 10gig pipe then drops out of our DWDM Equipment into the Core router at our point of presence in Durban.

What else do you want to know :)
 
HHHHmmmm

SlowJoe said:
The DFA fiber runs from the landing station, to Umhlanga, to our point of presence, at those 3 points there is DWDM equipment,
and that lights the fiber itself in a series of wavelengths (up to 160 waves on a fiber dependant on how you populate the DWDM equipment,
for obvious reasons we have no need of 160 waves YET!)
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What else do you want to know :)
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What a question -- EVERYTHING ;):)

"YET" -- WHEN can I come and connect up my 2500 :D:D


[Perhaps the CISCO Academy Lab at DUT will now start working :)]


Seriously -- are you *xxxxxx* out bandwidth :) :confused:

[As per an earlier PM -- we still have an appointment ??? ]

MW
 
Hopefully education will be less expensive now; in the sense that less will be spent on comms and savings being passed over to users [students]. Of course this can only happen if they don't use their savings for salary increases and bonuses.

When are the Primary and High schools going to benefit from all this, if at all??
 
SlowJoe said:
... (up to 160 waves on a fiber dependant on how you populate the DWDM equipment, for obvious reasons we have no need of 160 waves YET!)

The 10gig pipe then drops out of our DWDM Equipment into the Core router at our point of presence in Durban.

What else do you want to know :)
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thanks for enlighting us SlowJoe.

what router are you using at your Durban POP?

oh and what wavelength will you pass to me to borrow up to the landing station :D

I will supply the card please let me know if it is SDH or Ethernet :D
 
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Skydog,

All the routers we are using at the moment in our cores are 7600s, we have plans to deploy 4 CRS-1 16 slot series systems though once the backbone is in place.
 
SlowJoe said:
Skydog,

All the routers we are using at the moment in our cores are 7600s, we have plans to deploy 4 CRS-1 16 slot series systems though once the backbone is in place.
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Thanks SlowJoe, I guess with the CRS you can then do IPoDWDM but I believe the 7600s are going to be doing it soon if they havent already.

WOW 16 slot that is an HFR!!!!
 
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