Mtunzini Durban-Gauteng fibre cable goes live
[Johannesburg, 3 June 2011] -
Dark Fibre Africa (DFA), established by Community Investment Ventures (CIV) and Venfin, has announced the completion of an open access dark fibre infrastructure linking the undersea cables landing at Mtunzini to Gauteng and Durban.The completion of this project will transform the economics of bringing high capacity bandwidth to SA's major economic hubs, said DFA CEO Gustav Smit.He said the sharing of the most expensive elements of a telecommunications network, such as trenches, ducts and manholes among multiple customers, enables DFA to deliver lightning-fast fibre connections at a fraction of the price that these operators could build their own networks.
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