On Friday 30 December 2005 01:30, McTim wrote: > comments inline in color, apologies to those of yoou > using Pine, etc ;-):
I can't see color :). But on the issue: KDN has been working on connecting MBA to NBO for a long time now. However, like McTim says, this doesn't help any if the quality of the connection is confined within the borders. UTL and MTN-UG also have an internal fibre network, connecting their infrastructure within .ug, but that doesn't mean anything yet with regard to true Internet speeds. In .zw, we hook our PoP's across the country back to HRE over fibre. The reporter was a little anxious. On a well engineered network, there wouldn't be that much of a difference between copper and fibre until you need speeds in excess of 50Mbps (give or take). So unless Telkom Kenya's infrastructure is very congested (part of which I'm sure is already on fibre)... that said, it should make a huge difference for ISP's with PoP's in both towns, in terms of readily available capacity and reduced line rental costs, especially now that VoIP is no longer a "grey" service in .ke anymore. The author isn't being truthful about the "number of circuits required for a video feed", more importantly, a video feed over IP. It's all in the codecs. Besides, having a fibre network doesn't mean you can easily upgrade an STM-1 to an STM-4 backbone - fibre is just part of the puzzle, the boxes/muxes at both ends really count. And those aren't cheap, by any means. And ISP's don't need to "get their equipment configured to handle the new load", if an ISP has been renting 5Mbps of bandwidth between NBO and MBA, the router he was using for that connection doesn't care whether it's coming in on fibre, copper, a shoe lace or safety pin. Bandwidth is bandwidth, once the equipment is in place. So Cisco shouldn't be planning on sending down any GSR's, 6500's/7600's or CRS-1's, as the author might suspect. What this fibre will really do, in the immediate, is increase capacity for local content if there was any congestion in the first place. Until it is interconnected to the undersea cable, there won't be that much improvement in international web access. Mark.
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