aki, Hope I understood your questions ... We've got an HFC Network - Hybrid Fiber Coaxial. We go fiber-deep, so fiber to every street level almost. The cable that brings services to your home is a single cable running Video, DOCSIS data, and SIP voice. We can outsource services to hotels, or sell them channels, and they maintain their networks. A lot of them usually have an SMATV system of some sort. Though I think the quality of those systems could be improved ... You can check out some of the people enjoying the Zuku fibre services below ... --- quote --- Zen moment of the day http://plixi.com/p/59330894 @kaboro yup http://yfrog.com/0ilb80j “@martingicheru: @Kamakil its worth it, #dedicated #fibre , am getting 4mbps, thats true broadband” 4mbps. Same here man!! How do I put this lightly ummmm.... I'M SURFING #ZUKUFIBRE 4MBPS BABY!!!!!!! #ECSTATIC!!!! Plus they gave me a free WIFI router!!! Give me a call, or drop me a note - I'll organize a visit for you (with Daudi who skived !) The video service is even more exciting ;) R ----- Original Message ----- From: "aki" <aki275@gmail.com> To: "Riyaz Bachani" <riyaz.bachani@ke.wananchi.com>, "Skunkworks Mailing List" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 4:21:41 PM Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Inside Wananchi's Head End @Riyaz, thnks for the feedback. I paste these below from one of the links and some comments from you if possible. "This also includes an IP head end with HD (High Definition) channels capable to serve the entire East African region via fibre links, FTTC (Fiber To The Curb) architecture, bringing signals via fibre to every street level, 1 GHz system providing plenty of bandwidth, future proof technology roadmap which will allow roll out of new and innovative services, e.g. Video on Demand (VoD), videoconferencing, amongst others." FTTC, how much have we progressed on this and is there any location that is using a single set-top box that's receiving the triple play on cat6/co-axial? For example, there are many devices that are pushing out Video/Audio/Data over the same cable. Interesting that since Wananchi are the only ones who are moving away from traditional data markets, I'd highly suggest that your sales teams should keep hotels, airports, malls, buildings close to them. Given the infrastructure that you guys are pushing ahead with, RF is going to become obsolete very quickly. http://www.onevideo.co.uk/video-processing/video-ditribution/avovercat5 According to Reinartz, Zuku will now offer unmatched speeds from 1 MBps up to 8 MBps for residential customers and from 8 MBps up to 20 MBps for business customers Assuming that its FTTC and Cat6/Co-axial, is there any tests of such services going on? 20Mbits would put us on par with parts of Europe. Rgds. On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Riyaz Bachani < riyaz.bachani@ke.wananchi.com > wrote: it's live in Kile, Kilimani and Lavington