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100GB ADSL
service
ADSL
South Africa (Broadband South Africa), 19 April
2007
Internet Solutions (IS) has
announced ‘…the immediate availability of their new Business
ADSL 100GB service’ (New 100GB Business ADSL uncapped service
from Internet Solutions, MyADSL, 18 April 2007).
What’s different with
this new service?
No linking to a specific access
rate.
‘With the new service, IS is
moving away from linking its Business ADSL services to the
access rate (i.e. 384, 512, or “up to 4Mbps”)’ (New 100GB
Business ADSL uncapped service from Internet Solutions, MyADSL,
18 April 2007). According to IS: “Firstly, the access rate can
vary depending on geographic location, copper quality, and a
multitude of other factors; secondly, as access rates increase,
there is less significance attached to how fast you connect,
and more emphasis on what you can do with the service” (New
100GB Business ADSL uncapped service from Internet Solutions,
MyADSL, 18 April 2007).
In other words, ‘…the new 100GB
service takes advantage of the various access speeds available
on the market today’ (New 100GB Business ADSL uncapped service
from Internet Solutions, MyADSL, 18 April 2007).
Manager for Internet Solutions’
Access Solutions, Mark Strathmore explains: “As an example, if
you are reading this at work, it is likely you are on an
Ethernet connection, connected at 100Mbps to your company’s
network. However, it is extremely improbable that your company
has a 100Mbps connection to the Internet - especially if there
is more than one employee in your company! For this reason, we
accept that notwithstanding your fast connection to the
corporate LAN, and given that Internet bandwidth is finite,
there must be some mechanism to fairly distribute bandwidth to
users” (New 100GB Business ADSL uncapped service from Internet
Solutions, MyADSL, 18 April 2007).
In other words, it’s safe to say
that the new service fairly distributes bandwidth to
users.
How is IS positioning
this new service?
‘IS is positioning the Business
ADSL 100GB service to ideally address user requirements for a
business related ADSL service with fixed IP addresses, uncapped
usage, router included, and additional services such as fax and
Anti-Spam accounts’ (New 100GB Business ADSL uncapped service
from Internet Solutions, MyADSL, 18 April 2007).
In other words, if you’re a
business owner and fixed IP addresses, uncapped usage, et
cetera sound like your cup of tea, you would probably welcome
IS’s new ADSL service.
What will happen when the
100GB threshold is reached?
The service will be throttled to
a lower connection speed.
‘IS Business ADSL 100GB
service is uncapped, and the ‘100GB’ represents a
threshold at which IS will limit the connection speed in
order to prevent abuse. After the 100 GB threshold is
reached users will be throttled to a speed of 128 Kbps’
(New 100GB Business ADSL uncapped service from Internet
Solutions, MyADSL, 18 April
2007).
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