Sasecurity

Data convergence in South Africa
This wiki describes how CctvCameras, Internet Data, TelevisionOverInternet,SaVoipProvider and MeshNetworking will lead to DataConvergence in South Africa by building our own community DsLam telephone exchanges via a TelephoneNetworkRollout

http://www.blairatholl.co.za, BlairAtholl is an example of the tremendous benefits that a private telephone exchange presents. By emulating http://www.atec.co.za we will also lay fiber across public roads. http://www.flashnet.co.za/

Private Telephone network builders
Phone these people as explained under HorizontalDirectionaldrilling. They have all built telephone exchanges by laying cabling under public roads.

* ANDREI Nelspruit Horizontal drilling (082 569 9154) * Corrie Scheepers Planar Construction (083 413 1027) * Ampvar PTY ltd - Neil Botes (082 807 5800)

Crime and Telkom problem
The crime and Telkom problem in South Africa will be solved by building private telephone exchanges - TelephoneNetworkRollout -  using the exact same DsLam technology that Telkom uses. This allows for the rapid convergence of voice,video, data and alarm signals over to the IP protocol. To get any sort of stable meaningfull bandwidth will cost at least a R100 000 via either a Telkom Diginet line or SateLlite link. See HighBandwidthR100000.

Costs are R55000 / street
It costs R55000 to DsLam a street or on average R1300/home. This is a single once off amount. Compared to the Telkom line rental of R1440 per house per year, indicates just how stupid Telkom must think the public are. And R55000 represents retail prices, wholesale will be substantially less. One year ago a DsLam retailed for R8000, they are now R3500. DsLam and MeshNetworking represents a disruptive technology that will allow the public to become the next Telkom and Vodacom by establishing DecentralisedNetworks. Telkom is engaging in a divide and conquer strategy - they deal with each house on an individual basis. We should build our own exchanges which will enable us to drive down the cost of bandwidth.

The financing of the network is explained at FinancingTelephoneNetworks. A cost analysis of the network is done at TelephoneNetworkCosts.

The R240/month "panic button" money paid to security companies should be used to install CctvCameras in the street, resulting in substantial security cost savings. There are a million households spending R240+R100 = R340 on a scam. This money should rather be used for street CctvCameras which is only possible via a TelephoneNetworkRollout.

Switch over to VOIP
A stable Telkom ADSL link or Diginet line into steet CentralOffice via MeshNetworking from a distant premise will provide each house with Internet connectivity at a substantially reduced connectivity fee. This allows each person to use a 087 number connected to a SaVoipProvider. Thus you you would be able to completely suspend your Telkom line and use the old "line rental" money alone to finance the R1350/house for the community telephone exchange. You won't ever have to deal with Telkom directly again but with your local community CentralOffice ISP.

Leverage the security apparatus of the state
These community telephone exchanges will enable StreetMonitoring and NetworkCentricWarfare via CctvCameras and allow us to leverage the considerable security apparatus of the sate and change the role of the SAPS from one of reaction to prevention. Instead of solving the crime problem via DecentralisedNetworks people are pushing wheelbarrows around the Union building.

Wireless can't scale on its own
Wireless nodes by themselves can't scale beyond a certain amount of users and are limited in their availabe bandwidth. In order to distribute SateLlite broadband whole streets must be connected via community DsLam telephone exchanges. Each house in turn has a parabolic Wi-Fi on it's roof to distribute the SateLlite signal to distant users via MeshNetworking. At WirelessComparedtoTelephonePoles a TelephoneNetworkRollout is compared to MeshNetworking.

Thousands of users can be accomodated from a few StreetHighSites, covering the entire Pretoria in a hybrid mesh/DsLam network within a few months. Using the SIP protocol VOIP calls are made over MeshNetworking allowing the entire Pretoria to implement large areas of Vodacom like cellphone exchanges using the license free 2.4ghz band.

This would be impossible to do with just MeshNetworking alone. Only a hybrid DsLam and MeshNetworking solution will achieve this. Each ADSL modem connected to a DsLam hands out a ["DHCP"] lease to a Wi-Fi Access Point. The more houses that join the DsLam network the more distant users can watch YouTube via MeshNetworking. Bandwidth is expensive and to get a meaningful TV experience from http://vidoe.google.com and http://www.youtube.com needs the combined purchasing power and economies of scale that a 100+ houses with their own Telephone exchange represents. See TelevisionOverInternet.

Television over Internet
Of all the possible reasons for planting telephone poles I believe that TelevisionOverInternet is the one application alone that would justify such an endevour.

Television streaming, CctvCameras, uncapped Internet and doing something positive for South Africa will be the impetus for the creation of these telephone and cellular Voip exchanges. The same wires that carry the CCTV stream will also carry YouTube. Thus multimedia services and an Internet feed will subsidise the CctvCameras network enabling the rapid decentralised convergence of voice, video and data - solving the crime and Telkom impediment.

There is always a solution to a problem
Building our own Telkom exchanges and solving the crime problem will lead to economic growth. Once our telephone network is installed local council in turn will be able to provide or subsidise CctvCameras in the streets. Without a telephone network it is impossible to to have CctvCameras. Somebody has to watch the cameras from a central location and only a telephone exchange allows this. A datanetwork crossing roads will have a snowball effect and allow ThermalImagingCameras to be deployed to look for hidden firearms and house breaking equipment under peoples clothes walking down the street. And no it can't "undress" you, follow the link to find out how thermal imaging cameras work. It merely shows a black object with the outline of a firearm. Phone the police and they will ask him for his license. There is always a solution to a problem. And South Africas crime and Telkom problem is the specific lack of local loop bandwidth. Once a 100 houses have infinit local loop bandwidth between them, they will be able to purchase large blocks of international bandwidth via their combined purchasing power.

The legal perspective on planting telephone poles
Sending data across the road is sending data across the road, wether Wi-Fi, copper or fiber. There is no difference between physically connecting a wire via telephone poles across public roads to a WISP tower and sending data to this WISP tower using Wi-Fi or the copper. Should there ever be a prosecution of somebody laying say a private Fiber Optics cable between Jhb and Pretoria then every single Wi-Fi user will also have to be prosecuted by the http://www.npa.gov.za, since it is impossible to prevent a RF signal from crossing the road. It is logically absurd of Icasa to expect Wi-Fi device signals which they have approved not to cross public roads. The National Prosecuting Authority themselves use Wi-Fi enabled laptops and thus http://www.icasa.org.za find themselves in the incredable position of expecting Vusi Pikoli, Billy Downer and John Welch the directors of prosecution to prosecute themselves, friends and family. More about this under LegalPerspective.

Four facets to the Telkom/crime problem
There are four facets to the bandwidth and crime crises: Financial, Technical, LegalPerspective and Social. This wiki solves three of these: Financial, Technical and the legal issues surrounding it. All that remains is convincing ordinary people that it is upto them as an individual to make South-AFrica succeed - by collectivly establishing a defact TNO.

High-Tech security measures
* AntiHijacking * CctvCameras * CombinedSecurity * ConfiguringAlarmSystem * DatabaseWithGpsCoordinates, [[DcDcConverters * EmbeddedPc * FacialRecognition * HighTechSecurity * InfraRedLeds * OutsourceCctvIndia * PepperBall * RadioModems ,RoboTics, RS485 * SecuringPerimeter * ThermalImagingCameras * UnmannedAerialVehicles * VehicleSecurity, VideoGoggles * WindowsAutomation * ZoneMinder

Fixed wired and wireless communications
* GpsAndGprs * SateLlite] * [[DsLam * MeshNetworking,

Telephone poles, Trenched and Trenchless Cabling methods
* CableJettingAndPipes * FiberAndCopper * HorizontalDirectionaldrilling * ["Trenchless notes"] * TrenchingEquipment * TelephoneNetworkRollout * TelevisionOverInternet * VibratoryPlow * WirelessComparedtoTelephonepoles

Financing of a Telephone network
*FinancingTelephoneNetworks *TelephoneNetworkCosts *LegalPerspective