In response to growing demand for its VOIP and broadband IaaS, OTEL Telecoms today announced the successful relocation of its flagship LiTE service, which hosts the 1Cloud hosted PBX and SIP trunk product, to the highly secure, vendor-neutral and state-of-the-art data centre,Teraco.
Extending the company's ability to host its VOIP network bridged over three major local broadband networks to ensure full uptime, OTEL Telecoms now boasts a higher grade VOIP network, which enjoys less hops, less latency to interconnects and higher-quality voice.
"OTEL had established its CORE network at Teraco a few years ago. Relocating the LiTE network servicing thousands of clients was a highly pressurising project compared to the relocation of OTEL's Victoria Transit Station to Teraco last month," explains OTEL Telecoms CEO, Mohammad Patel. "After months of planning, we finally made the bold move, and succeeded, but it was not easy, as it came with its unforeseen circumstances, which caused much inconvenience to subscribers of the service; however, it will be worth it in the long run."
The vendor-neutral data centre fits hand in glove with OTEL's strategy to service channel partners with vendor-neutral VOIP and broadband services. ITSPs can now select a handful of services within the OTEL basket and mix and match with other providers' services (including voice transit, hosting and last-mile connectivity) to provide their enterprise and retail client`ele the custom service of their choice. This is the next step in providing infrastructure as a service to OTEL's southern African channel partners.
To keep its finger on the pulse of technology, OTEL has restructured its infrastructure, embracing 'nodes' by segregating its inbound and termination interconnects. This method allows total redundancy. It also accommodates OTEL's Victoria Transit Station, which allows other operators and ITSPs to transit calls via OTEL's well-balanced network.
OTEL's connection to NAP Africa is a major advantage for other ITSPs already hosted at Teraco that can easily peer and use OTEL's Victoria as primary or fail-over transit. Teraco is attracting many other ISPs and operators. This has enabled OTEL to join its CORE to other providers by dedicated cabling, hence reducing hops and potential failure points.
The most attractive solution is for the ever-growing channel partners, who can now decentralise and use the TVNO 2.0 service, to be launched in March 2013, which includes hosted PBX, FOIP and SIP trunk services together with an automated billing system. The total solution package is ideal for most ITSPs or PBX specialists.
Patel concludes: "OTEL believes fundamentally that we can enhance our channel partners' business results by delivering our IaaS solutions to them utilising our advanced VOIP and broadband platforms, as such, it is the variety of VOIP- and broadband-related services that leverage our stable platform and remains our primary focus, because delivering substantial new value to our channel partners drives our business most effectively in these challenging times. In this respect, our upgraded network facility strengthens our delivery capability and provides the necessary infrastructure to support a substantial expansion of our VOIP and broadband business over the coming years."
Sales enquiries can either be made from the Web site, or e-mailed to sales@otelafrica.com.
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