UUNET Namibia has signed an agreement with Telecom Namibia to offer a national peering solution to its customers in the local market. The venture presents both organisations with the opportunity to ensure Internet customers receive savings on bandwidth costs through immediate, continuous and uninterrupted connectivity.
"The agreement between UUNET and Telecom Namibia only caters for local traffic inside the country," says Werner Kriessbach, Acting Managing Director at UUNET Namibia. Prior to the implementation all local traffic had to be routed via SA.
"A massive advantage to this direct link is the time efficiency created with regard to the sending and receiving of e-mail in the local market. Corporate and personal e-mails will be exchanged far more rapidly, eradicating the previous time-consuming method," says Kriessbach.
As a result of the implementation, the capacity link between the two networks is more than 0.5MBps.
"Telecom Namibia operates the only public network in Nambia, with UUNET running the most successful private network. It therefore made sense for us to partner on an initiative of this nature," says James Camm, manager: multimedia services, Telecom Namibia. "Since the implementation, we have experienced far less pressure on the international links that both organisations run into SA.
"This partnership provides both organisations with a number of synergies for enhanced technology development going forward. Telecom Namibia`s telecommunications infrastructure is on par with the best in the world, and UUNET`s ability to effectively leverage off this will enable us to continue with the highest levels of service delivery to our customers," he concludes.
UUNET Namibia is Southern Africa`s only pan-African provider of Internet-based network services and the largest global carrier of Internet traffic in Africa. The company provides Internet connectivity and corporate network services to major corporations as well as access services to Internet service providers.
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