Data 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 [...]
Also tagged AfricaINX, MWeb, SATNAC, telkom, uncappedAS37105 (NEOLOGY-AS) recently appeared in the BGP routing tables, announcing two /24 prefixes, with transit via Imperial Online. This is what Roelf Diedericks of Neology had to say about it: Neology supplies IAP services to ISP’s in the local market, this includes radius, billing and RealSoon(tm), ADSL IPConnect termination for multiple ISP’s. We will be [...]
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