After four years in a relationship with my lovely lady, I decided to take the plunge this year and propose to her. I did this on my birthday. Along with the added convenience of being easy for me to remember the date, I thought this would be extra sneaky and she would never see it coming. Read more…
Web Africa embraces open peering in South Africa. We are peering and setting up peering agreements to pioneer a faster local internet with reduced ping times and latency. Through the connection of multiple providers with one another, we will be able to reduce subscription costs and further achieve our vision of enhancing the online experience in South Africa.
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Q: What are we planning regarding self-provisioning? Hereby I mean how much traffic will we carry and how much IPC capacity did we buy?
Matt: We will carry well over 500mps of IPC traffic. We will manage the IP network and purchase and peer with carriers and content providers as necessary.
Q: What bandwidth will we use?
Matt: We will most likely use Seacom and in the future WACS indirectly through carriers or partners. For international bandwidth we’ll initially use Sat3, backed by Telkom Wholesale in order to secure dependability and performance at good pricing. [...] Read more…
South Africa eagerly awaits as the launch date for SEACOM grows near.
The 15,000km undersea fibre-optic cable system that costs over R5-billion and runs from France via East Africa to Mtunzini on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, will be launched in South Africa in the next 10 days. Read more…
