Openserve and Huawei have announced a partnership to deploy a high-speed fibre packet and optical transport network in South Africa.
"This will enable Openserve to respond to the exponential growth in demand for data services across South Africa, with trial results indicating a seven-fold increase in the speed of fibre deployment," the groups say in a joint statement.
The network uses a future-oriented Software Defined Networking (SDN) architecture based on IP and optical synergy. It will support 8Tbps per fibre, with one fibre pair supporting 400 000 families with 20Mbps bandwidth per family concurrently.
The companies say the core network deployment started in Gauteng and is currently being rolled out nationally. Openserve says it is currently in the process finalisation phase before implementation and is investigating future services which would also use SDN architecture.
"We insisted on this architecture, when we began designing our packet and optical transport network in 2014," says Alphonzo Samuels, CEO of Openserve - which is Telkom's redesigned wholesale partner and is a division of the Telkom group.
"With the quick service provisioning and smart management that SDN brings, we can quickly develop more innovative services to meet various customer requirements, improving our competitive position in South Africa's telecom market. The successful deployment of the packet and optical transport network will be the first step in reconstructing our network architecture in the future," he adds.
"The long-term partnership between Openserve and Huawei is helping propel rapid development of the SDN industry," according to Huawei network product line president, David Wang.
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