A number of articles have appeared on Mybroadband about MWEB’s strategy to force MTN, Vodacom and Telkom to peer with them. Two comments: MWEB already peers with MTN. Here are the two hops between their networks1: 6 g-0-3-vic-jinx-2.mweb.co.za (196.22.163.1) 7 mtnns-2.jinx.net.za (198.32.142.31) I think what MWEB probably means by “transit” is that MTN charges them [...]
Tagged MWeb, Mybroadband, peeringAt yesterday’s Mybroadband 2010 conference, there was a panel discussion during which the topic of capped versus uncapped broadband was raised. Murray Steyn, the panelist representing VOX (an ISP that doesn’t believe quality uncapped broadband is possible) used the following analogy to illustrate his point: Providing uncapped Internet is like inviting 10 buddies to a [...]
Tagged ispfail, uncapped, VOXPython+matplotlib generated set:
Today I attended and presented at ZaCon, a local information security conference, with a difference: ZaCon exists without funding (on purpose, don’t offer) or any frills that would make you want to attend other than a passion for infosec. The event was well organized (with impressive amateur AV and video-conference wrangling). The presentations were interesting [...]
Tagged infosec, zaconData volume quotas or “bandwidth caps” are restrictions introduced by the South African ISP industry to cope with the introduction of ADSL. Prior to ADSL, the amount of upstream bandwidth required by an ISP to service N users was naturally limited by the fact that telephone calls are expensive: users dialed up, did what they [...]
Tagged ADSL, AfricaINX, MWeb, SATNAC, telkom, uncappedI’ve just read an ITWeb article entitled “Diaspora won’t work in SA” (referring to the soon to be launched Diaspora social network). The article quotes Steven Ambrose of WWW Strategy : “According to Ambrose, only 12% of South Africans have access to the Internet and of that 12%, only 4% have broadband. This means that [...]
Tagged diaspora, trustfabricOne of the weird ironies about this blog has been that although it is focused on networking in South Africa, the web server hosting it for the last ~two years was a Linode.com virtual machine in New Jersey, USA. The server’s IPv6 connectivity was via tunnel to HE.net in New York. Now, thanks to the [...]
Tagged hosting, IPINX, IPv6, WordpressUntil I can use the same software I use on my two computers, on a mobile phone, I don’t consider the “smart phone” to be a general purpose computing device. Paul Graham has a similar metric, he wants the device to be capable of hosting it’s own development environment. Graham, among many others, has done [...]
Tagged android, iphone, maemo, meego, n900, nokia, smart phoneAn open access network (OAN) is a horizontally layered business model for telecoms that has some interesting advantages. It is typically implemented by separating physical infrastructure from services. This creates a virtual market place, where end users have a choice of multiple service providers, and the service providers in turn are freed from having to [...]
Tagged broadband, Neology, open access, tshwaneI’m presenting a talk at the TLUG meeting in Pretoria tonight, on fiber optic networking. These meetings are open to the public. See the link for details.
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