IS (The Internet Solution) is the e-business infrastructure subsidiary of London-listed Dimension Data Holdings plc. The company provides value-added and Internet services previously offered independently by The Internet Solution and OmniLink. The OmniLink switched backbone network, is maintained separately under the OmniLink banner.
Since its inception in 1993, IS has built up the foremost Internet network in South Africa, with peering agreements and a transparent upgrade plan to guarantee customers superior connectivity. IS`s fault tolerant national WAN makes use of redundant links between major centres ensuring continued availability. In addition IS continually upgrades international circuits to meet customers` requirements.
IS has offered hosting solutions to the market since 1996, and was the first South African company to do so. This has grown into a fully-fledged ASP Framework which combines IS` robust infrastructure with the critical services and partnerships required to provide a cost effective, reliable and high availability application to the market.
The IS ASP offering
IS offers the opportunity to outsource mission critical online applications to a secure, 24-hour fully managed environment, in the form of a DMZ solution. This locates the application behind a firewall, on IS`s high-speed network infrastructure, at the confluence of South Africa`s commercial Internet traffic.
The IS ASP offering encompasses a variety of different components. ASPs and corporates can utilise different infrastructure components as well as variations of the components to bring their ASP solution to market.
The major infrastructure components of the IS ASP offering are:
Hosting: this ranges from hosting a server in IS`s secure hosting environment to shared or dedicated DMZ solutions which offer a secure zone on the Internet where private servers can be housed.
Security: in addition to DMZ solutions which utilise advanced firewall technologies, IS provides a physically secure hosting environment in its state-of-the-aft Internet Data Centres which incorporate world-class power, fire control, climate control, and physical and virtual access control.
Dedicated connectivity to the hosted server for ASPs and their clients, either via dial up connections, ISDN connections, hosting only bandwidth, diginet connections and/or IP-Net connections.
Redundancy: Secondary diginet connection or ISDN back-up connection.
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