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SOUTH AFRICA'S FUTURE BANDWIDTH SPEEDS

South Africa’s bandwidth capability is currently around 120Gb/s with the SAT3/SAFE cable. New fiber optic networks like the SEACOM cable (live July 2009) now offers 10 times this  capacity at 1280Gb/s linking South Africa to Europe and Asia.  SEACOM’S enormous overall capacity of 1.28TB/s enables East and South Africans to enjoy high quality, high demand services such as:-

High Definition Television (HDTV)
Peer to Peer Networks
Internet Protocol TelevisioN

By mid 2010 comes EASSY, a 10 000km cable network connecting  eight countries in Africa fro Sudan to South Africa with a regional capacity of 1.4 TB/s (assuming of course political wrangling by member countries and Telkom does not delay this by yet another year)

By 2011, the West African Cable System (WACS) will connect  South Africa with the United Kingdom along the west coast offering a staggering 3.84 Tbit/s.

Rapid connectivity offers enormous opportunities for companies to adopt online media, particulary HD VIDEO, to connect with staff, customers, clients and service partners in a whole new, interactive, creative, personalised and engaging way.

FIBER OPTICS

A fiber optic cable is a glass of plastic fiber that carries light along its length, permitting transmission of data over longer distances and at higher bandwidths.  There is less loss of quality and they are immune to electromagnetic interference.  They are ideal for networking as they can be bundled. The per channel light signal can be modulated as high as 111 Gb/s although 10 or 40 Gb/s is typical.  Each fiber can carry many independent channels, each using a different wavelength of light.