On Saturday 17 April 2010 05:31:29 am Mugarura Cavin wrote: > The issue of the cable not having sufficient capacity, is > quite minor. Despite recent actions, where the Press > jumped tables over this issue.
Agree. > a) Planning. Its very hard to maintain such a large > process without clear planning. On a typical Monday, MTN > will dig a road, on Tuesday NWSC, Wednesday WARID, etc > whether there is an agency (read UNRA) taking care of > this infrastructure properly can be left to anyone's > imagination City council needs to control when roads are opened up so that disruption to traffic, telecommunications, water, power, e.t.c. are kept to a minimum. If service providers (both telecoms and non-telecoms) miss the next "open the roads" cycle, too bad. > b) Cable capacity. According to Moore's law, computing > power doubles every 18 months (actual law talks about > transistors on an IC), now by the time, the good Chinese > complete the work, they will be cables with 8 times > faster speeds, and probably cheaper Up to about native 40Gbps wavelengths, the cable won't determine future speed. So I wouldn't worry about this. > c) Competition. This project was awarded to Huawei, after > it competed with itself. Reminds me of some political > parties. RFP's and Procurement processes for government projects of this scale have always been vague - remember the choppers? > d) QA & QC. Who is doing the doing this? I'm guessing the government left it to the contractor. What we needed was our own folk managing the contractor, even if it were a reliable consultant. > d) the interesting part, is that MTN tried to block this > project in parliament, since they had started a similar > project. There can never be enough fibre in the ground. If we get more folk laying glass, we can only be better off. Cheers, Mark.
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