With more than 10 000 delegates ranging from global leaders to members of the press set to descend on South Africa for the Earth Summit in August, Storm, one of South Africa's leading providers of voice, data and internet services, will be providing a hosting platform for the World Wildlife Fund web site for the duration of the event. The company has been involved in the development of the Save Our Planet web site www.wwf.org/sosplanet, which will facilitate communication between the public and the attending dignitaries.
Storm will proactively manage and monitor the site during the Summit, providing the necessary bandwidth on demand, capable of hosting over 4000 users at any one time. Furthermore, Storm's expertise has made significant strides in ensuring continuous uptime of the site.
Tim Wyatt-Gunning, managing director of Storm, believes that the Internet is an enabler that forms an important part in facilitating communication between individual opinions and a wider global forum. "Through the web site provided at the Summit, members of the public will, for the first time in history, have the opportunity to air their views online with the confidence that their leaders will take notice. The website is to be broadcast in 8 languages worldwide."
The website is designed to offer a communication channel where the public can submit their responses on a variety of issues and topics discussed at the Summit to the world leaders who will be attending. These responses will be transferred to live tickers/electronic notice boards which will be strategically placed in the various venues.
Wyatt-Gunning concludes, "South Africa has the infrastructure and expertise to provide the level of support required to host an international event of this magnitude. We are delighted that Storm's backbone network has been selected, as the most efficient and reliable, to ensure resilient communications throughout the event. "
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storm was incorporated as a South African limited company in December 1998. The business launched in Cape Town in June 1999. The company sees itself as challenging the major players in the telecoms market by providing products and services that help companies to communicate efficiently and cost-effectively.
storm currently provides over 3 500 businesses with a range of high quality, cost-effective alternatives to existing providers of voice and data communications including storm international, storm cellular, storm access, storm fax and storm sms. storm international lowers the cost of a business's international calls through its latest callback technology. storm cellular and storm fax reduces the cost of calls to cellular phones and the sending of faxes. With the acquisition of ITI's ISP business in 2000, storm offers Internet connectivity which includes domain name registration, Web-site design and server hosting services. Furthermore, the company is positioning itself to offer converged voice and data services on one network, once deregulation of the local telecommunications market takes place.
Storm will continue to differentiate itself in the industry by providing services which, will include VoIP (once legalised) as well as value-added services such as its newly launched Customer Zone offering.
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