Re: Telkom Etherlink

Hi Riaan                                         >@2012.02.22_11:36:11_+0200

We have a few Etherlink services that have been running for a few months.

Our experience thus far:

 a) Coverage is almost non existent. We get around 2 links for every 60+
    that we order :P

 b) The service itself is good. We're using the links for voice and have not
    had any problems thus far.

 c) Telkom doesn't know how to support the product at all, so expect issues
    when reporting faults and/or when ordering :P

 d) The CPE's are a mess if you build star topology as Telkom is not willing
    to hand over a single connection for multiple links. You therefore end
    up with a router per link (similar to NTU per Diginet circuit if you
    don't do E1)

We know of other Telkom clients that have issues with their Etherlink lines,
but as we're not involved I can't comment on why they're experiencing issues.

Note, the service is not quite Diginet. It is uncontended and relatively
stable, but it is essentially SDSL, not a serial link, so you definitely get
more jitter than with Diginet.

> Not much out there on this service, and Telkom does not want to talk
> to us about this.
> 
> Is anyone using Etherlink out there and what for? Can it be used as an
> alternative to Diginet?
> 
> As far as I understand it is synchronous and uncontended, so like if
> not equal to Diginet.
> 
> But, earlier people said:
> 
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Gregory Massel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I haven't used it, but in every meeting I've had with Telkom that we've
> > mentioned EtherLink, they were exceptionally quick to state that it was
> > *NOT* comparable to diginet and an entirely different service.
> >
> > (They weren't suggesting it was any less (or more) reliable, simply that it
> > was not comparable.)
> >
> > On 2011/11/01 02:45 PM, Edrich de Lange wrote:
> >> Telkom claims its a diginet replacement, but I am a bit skeptical on
> >> the reliability side of things.

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Regards
 Abraham

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