Africa INX, an independent network exchange and licensed operator in South Africa, completed a fibre installation in Centurion, which services the sizeable R21 office park, and its tenants. The new fibre service went live three weeks ago and provides the office park with 10 gigs of fibre capacity to the Internet, and several other Metro E nodes in the greater Johannesburg area.
Africa INX established its new link using DFA's extensive fibre routes in the region, which links to the Africa INX Metro E ring in Teraco Isando and Midrand. Through these routes, they provide other licensed operators with capacity to different locations, which now includes R21 office park.
“Africa INX has reached its primary goal, of rolling out an extensive Metro E Fibre Ring in the Gauteng region, which picks up some key industry touch points such at JINX, Teraco, Neotel, Sandton, Bryanston, Jhb City, Midrand and several other important locations. Through this we service over 25 licensed ISPs in our industry, with Internet and national infrastructure. We are very pleased to be able to add Centurion to these existing fibre locations, and the R21 office park,” comments Stuart Hardy, Managing Director of Africa INX.
This is the second time that Africa INX has established a fibre presence in a corporate office park, including the Waterfall Office Park, in Midrand, which gives licensed holders an alternative access medium to access their clients, in providing voice and data solutions. The fibre network promises to provide faster and more scalable capacity, at competitive prices.
“There are as many as 300 separate operating companies in the R21 office park, who are paying in some cases a substantial amount of money to connect to their Internet and voice providers. We believe these costs will more than halve now, with an added improvement in speed and availability, due to the introduction of a redundant fibre route into the park. We are already working with ISPs to assist them in accessing the fibre for backhaul to the Internet and voice switches,” ends Hardy.
DFA has also built a complete fibre ring inside the office park, which allows any customer to connect to the Africa INX fibre node quickly and cost-effectively.
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