Internet Solutions international bandwidth close to 2Gbps

Issued by Stone Soup for Internet Solutions
Johannesburg, 04 Oct 2007

Internet Solutions (IS), a leading converged communications services provider, is about to upgrade its international bandwidth to 2Gbps (gigabits per second), providing faster connectivity than ever before to IS customers.

Says Alan Bacher, Business Unit Manager - Access Solutions at IS: "Having increased our international bandwidth by 843Mbps over the last 12 months, and with current bandwidth at over 1.7Gbps, we need to keep ahead of demand. We pride ourselves on providing customers with as much resilience as possible and to this end land our bandwidth in our Cape Town and two Johannesburg points of presence (PoPs) located in Rosebank and Bryanston."

In addition, IS terminates its international links with PoPs in London, New York and Hong Kong with numerous service providers to mitigate any risk of a single point of failure.

"Peering is in place at the London Internet Exchange, New York Internet Exchange and Hong Kong Internet Exchange to enable our customers a more direct route to their desired international internet destinations.

"We have also started to upgrade our international transit links to 1Gbps as well as our links between London and New York to 4 x 155Mbps to accommodate the extra international bandwidth. In addition, the undersea SAT3, SAT2 and SAFE cables are utilised, together with satellite access mediums to connect to the rest of the world," Bacher concludes.

Internet Solutions

Internet Solutions (IS) is a leading provider of end-to-end connectivity solutions and related services across the African continent. The people at IS are passionate about constantly innovating and delivering solutions and services that are relevant and critical to their customers. These services are built on a world-class, secure, resilient infrastructure, delivered according to global best practices and effected in partnership with the world's leading technology vendors. It is through these services and solutions that IS creates a competitive edge for its customers' communication needs, and promotes sustainable business growth.

The business was founded in 1992 on the principle of developing a robust infrastructure in order for corporates and other organisations to communicate. Since then, IS has established itself as a leader in this space, attracting over 80% of South Africa's top businesses as clients. From listed companies to non-governmental organisations, local and national government and smaller companies, IS is enabling and evolving communications to meet the business needs of thousands of customers.

Today the company enjoys a leadership position as it delivers services including: hosting, access, security solutions, virtual private network, mobile solutions, VOIS, African solutions, broadband and application services. Recent growth in the African economy has resulted in IS spreading its services across all parts of the continent as clients demand reliable and robust networking connectivity in the African market.

Internet Solutions has been certified as a Level 4 contributor to BEE (100% compliant), and has earned an impressive collection of accolades and awards.

Partnerships with major global players such as Cisco and Microsoft are also fundamental to IS, and as such Internet Solutions was recently awarded Microsoft Gold Certification in the hosting specialisation for hosted messaging and collaboration (Hosted Exchange and SharePoint) and managed hosting solutions - the first South African company to achieve this accreditation. Similarly in 2002 IS was certified as a Cisco Managed Security Service Provider, the first company outside of the US to be awarded this accolade.

For more, visit www.is.co.za.

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