Telkom: Upgrades in progress, according to technician

ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa), 5 September 2011

According to Telkom technicians, the roll-out of the mini-DSLAMS and FTTC upgrades are getting closer.

It was reported in July that Telkom planned to upgrade their connection speeds and the planned 20 Mbps and 40 Mbps broadband services which will use the 40 Mbps connections for trials for video-on-demand. At the time it was speculated that they would use a combination of technologies for the trial, including VDSL and ADSL2+. VHDSL provides uplink speeds of up to 16 Mbps and down-link speeds of up to 52 Mbps over a single pair of copper. At the time Telkom's Bashier Sallie said that Telkom wants to continuously reduce the copper loop lengths, taking fiber to the curb in order to provide higher broadband speeds.

It has now been suggested that they will be deploying remote IMAX units to shorten copper local loops in areas surrounding Telkom's exchanges and then back-haul them to the exchanges using fiber. Where copper quality is not good enough to deliver high speeds, they will be repaired or copper will be replaced.

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