UUNET SA, a WorldCom company, is providing the Internet connectivity at the World Conference Against Racism, running from 26 August through to 7 September in Durban.
UUNET will provide the radio broadcast streaming capabilities during the conference to ensure that press, officials and the various NGOs are able to remain in contact with their agencies around the world.
"To enable all delegates to remain in-touch during the conference, we have installed UUdirect Standard Edition with a 256Kb line for the bandwidth and a Cisco router, which will in part be used for Internet connectivity at the Internet Caf'e and also to stream radio proceedings," says Rienzo Colpo, regional sales manager at UUNET KZN.
"The line was installed in record time, with the router going in on Saturday, and testing of the streaming servers completed by Wednesday, to ensure no problems are experienced during the conference."
Conference programmes will also be Web cast internationally, via the AMARC-RSVF Web site at www.amarc.org/vsf, thanks to collaboration between Fana Fana Corp (US), SANGONet-Woman`snet (SA), UUNET SA and The Voice community radio station (SA). The RVSF-WCAR broadcast in SA is a co-production between the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), the National Community Radio Forum (NCRF) and the Centre for Democratic Communications (CDC) in Johannesburg, the Cape Town-based IDASA Democracy Radio Project, and two Canadian-based NGOs: Alternatives (Montreal) and CUSO (Ottawa).
"As UUNET is a global Internet Service Provider (ISP), we have the existing infrastructure to deliver the bandwidth to broadcast this event. In addition, as we have a network that spans six continents and 65 countries, we do not have to rely on other upstream service providers for the delivery of the content. UUNET will provide total support on the line we have installed on a 24X7 basis, with content monitoring, proactive outage notification and on-site technical assistance, if necessary, which is standard to all our service offerings," says Colpo.
"We are pleased to be associated with the World Conference Against Racism. Racism affects many people and economies and is a very personal issue for many South Africans, and therefore UUNET felt it was our responsibility to offer our services."
UUNET SA, a WorldCom company, 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.
All UUNET SA products and services are delivered within the required regulatory conditions.
WorldCom (NASDAQ: WCOM, MCIT), UUNET SA`s parent company, is a pre-eminent global communications company for the digital generation, operating in more than 65 countries with 2000 revenues of $19 billion. WorldCom provides the innovative technologies and services that are the foundation for business in the 21st century. For more information, go to http://www.worldcom.com/.
For more information, please visit the UUNET SA Web site on www.uunet.co.za.
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