MTN Business has been awarded the tender to deliver a fully managed multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) network to the branch offices of financial solutions company Metropolitan, in Botswana and Namibia.
This is to ensure that Metropolitan delivers centralised communication for these 17 branches back to its head office in Cape Town.
According to Angela Gahagan, managing executive at MTN Business: “The project, which is set to be completed by the end of September 2010 includes linking three branch offices in Botswana and 14 in Namibia to Metropolitan's head office in Cape Town.” She says prior to the implementation of this solution, Metropolitan ran a point-to-point network, which was fully managed and maintained internally.
“However, through our MPLS solution, we can offer the company full voice and data in-country support and management, ensuring a high quality of service and enhance the speed and reliability of their network,” she adds.
MTN business has invested in in-country skills and support, as well as a full MPLS network in Africa, and is able to offer organisations, like Metropolitan, a far more cost effective solution, that enables businesses to reduce their CAPEX spending as they are able to leverage off the MTN Business infrastructure, Gahagan points out.
“Furthermore, as Metropolitan is working with one service provider for the delivery and management of its network in Africa, it minimises administration complexities and enjoys single, consolidated support and billing structures,” she adds
The group technology services manager at Metropolitan, Gerhard van Rensberg, says “Metropolitan undertook a lengthy RFP process to ensure that the provider chosen to manage our voice and data traffic could not only offer an efficient and faster service overall, but could deliver full in-country support while offering us the ability to reach into the rest of Africa.”
Currently MTN Business is in further discussion with Metropolitan to extend its MPLS offering to the other branch offices in Africa.
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