Johannesburg, 23 Nov 2021
MetroFibre customers have enhanced performance, agility and assurance, particularly relevant to organisations undergoing digital transformation, based on its MEF 3.0 certification achieved with assistance from long-term systems integration partner, NEC XON.
Allied with MetroFibre’s presence across Gauteng’s leading data centres, achieving this certification improves secure, reliable, fast and scalable data exchanges for numerous activities, including mirroring, replication and backups.
“MEF 3.0 means South African businesses get the world’s highest standards for secure, high-speed and low-latency networks key to supporting critical business requirements,” says Gary Webster, Head of Wholesale at MetroFibre.
“Six primary components make up the subscriber and operator services of the certification. Each require high degrees of engineering proficiency. We’ve worked with NEC XON for more than 10 years and our strong working partnership supports these kinds of world-class outcomes for customers.”
MetroFibre is a Carrier Ethernet (CE) 3.0 rated provider for small, medium and large enterprises with dedicated, uncontended, open access fibre with all-in-one security, direct local and international cloud service provider connectivity, carrier-compliant SLAs and dedicated carrier-grade internet services, which are highly available. It is the only African service provider to achieve six of the MEF 3.0 carrier Ethernet certifications.
“Being MEF 3.0-certified is the global gold standard. It means MetroFibre offers excellent performance, competitive differentiation, and complies with international best practice standards,” says Anthony Laing, GM of Networking at NEC XON.
MetroFibre’s MEF-certified network offers native fibre security for data in transit and offers high volume throughput that is fast with exceptionally low latency that makes it ideal for critical environments, including financial services.
“They have good customer traction as a national operator with a compelling value proposition for data centre interconnect and low-latency, high-speed managed enterprise connectivity services,” says Laing.
MEF is the non-profit forum for the world’s network, cloud and technology providers helping to empower enterprise digital transformation.
MetroFibre became a founding MEF Forum Member in Africa in 2015 and provided South Africa’s first globally compliant CE 2.0 open access fibre network. At the time, NEC XON assisted MetroFibre when it deployed a DWDM carrier-class fibre backbone.
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NEC XON
NEC XON is the combination of XON, a Systems Integrator providing custom ICT and security services and solutions in Southern Africa since 1996, and NEC Africa, the African business of the global technology giant NEC Corporation. NEC Corporation implemented its first communication solution in Africa in 1963 and established NEC Africa in 2011 to grow its business ICT and public safety.
Kapela Capital (Pty) Ltd, XON’s B-BBEE partner since 2010, continues as NEC XON’s B-BBEE partner in South Africa, with Israel Skosana as chairman of the board of directors of NEC XON. NEC XON is a Level 1 B-BBEE contributor.
NEC generates global revenues in excess of $30 billion by orchestrating a brighter world for public entities, enterprises, telecoms carriers, and providing system platforms for businesses.
The combined NEC Africa and XON (NEC XON) operations seek to more fully explore the opportunities for safe city, energy, cyber security, telecommunication solutions, retail, managed services, cyber defence services and cloud (both public and private), among others in sub-Sahara Africa.
NEC XON maintains its head offices in Gauteng, South Africa with a footprint that covers all nine provinces in South Africa and 16 countries in sub-Sahara Africa.