Liquid Telecom distribution with Far South Networks

Johannesburg, 07 Jul 2014

Liquid Telecom has established a distribution agreement with Far South Networks to resell its IP PBX and SIP Gateway products within the territories it operates, starting with Zimbabwe.

Utilising Far South Networks' innovative VOIP technology, Liquid Telecom is able to offer its business customers with robust, high availability voice services over the Liquid Telecom fibre network. Liquid Telecom can also enable its reseller channel with a full featured, on-site IP PBX that is both future-proof and scalable.

Liquid Telecom completed sales and technical training, facilitated by Far South Networks, to its internal and external channels. The product was launched in field trials to select customers in Zimbabwe on 1 September 2013 and will be launched publicly in August 2014. Liquid Telecom will hold stock locally and offer a warranty swap-out centre staff with two Far South Networks' certified engineers.

Liquid Telecom, has built Africa's largest fibre network; it runs from the north of Uganda to Cape Town and spans more than 15 000 km through Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

As a leader in IP PBX and SIP Gateway market, Far South Networks provides businesses with a platform supporting a flexible and powerful "3-in-One" feature package for managing voice and data service delivery with unparalleled quality and security. The Com.X Integrated Access Gateway platform supports on device feature set migration to an on-site PBX or an IP Centrex, cloud based service.

Far South Networks, local designer, manufacturer of telecoms equipment solution, brings connectivity to large gated communities

Far South Networks products are designed and manufactured in South Africa for African conditions, using open standards and open architectures.

Liquid Telecom Zimbabwe's Next Generation Voice service offers crystal clear digital call quality over their wholly owned and managed redundant fibre network. The new service runs on the non-geographic 08677 number range and directly connects to a fully redundant softswitch without passing through the public internet. The service is also the first to offer landline video calling in Zimbabwe. Liquid Telecom customers enjoy the lowest tariffs in the market.

For more information, please visit: www.farsouthnet.com

Far South Networks

Changing the communications landscape for good

Far South Networks is a world-leading designer and manufacturer of IP telephony platforms. Far South Networks products integrate robust communications hardware with open standards based telephony software applications, providing the business user with cost effective, full-featured, reliable and easy to use platforms for the converged voice and data market. Far South Networks' products provide a scalable, secure and redundant solution for the SMME market, guaranteeing quality connectivity via traditional telecoms, IP and fixed mobile convergence. Far South Networks technology lets SMMEs balance their capex with its business requirements by supporting a migration path to on-site or Centrex based services - all on one device. For more information visit: http://www.farsouthnet.com.

The Liquid Telecom Group

Liquid Telecom is the leading independent data, voice and IP provider in eastern, central and southern Africa. It supplies fibre optic, satellite and international carrier services to Africa's largest mobile network operators, ISPs, financial institutions and businesses of all sizes.

Liquid Telecom has built Africa's largest independent fibre network which runs from the north of Uganda to Cape Town, currently spanning over 17 000km across borders and covering Africa's fastest-growing economies, where no fixed network has existed before.

Liquid Telecom's network provides connectivity onto the five main subsea cable systems landing in Africa; WACS, EASSY, SEACOM, SAT3 and TEAMs.

Working under various brands, the Liquid Telecom Group has operating entities in Botswana, DRC, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, UK, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The company was named Best African Wholesale Carrier in both 2012 and 2013 at the annual Global Carrier Awards.

For more information, please visit: www.liquidtelecom.com.

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