This year’s conference takes place on the 12th of November 2009, at Vodaworld in Midrand. Web Africa has taken up a Gold sponsorship; which includes a large exhibition stand and the sponsoring of all the delegate name badges. Cisco being the other Gold sponsor at the Conference.

Our very own Matthew Tagg was invited to join the speaker line-up for the broadband panel discussion hosted by Brian Neilson. This will be a group discussion, delving into the South African broadband environment. [...] Read more…

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…