No glitches on network during Confed Cup, says Telkom

This year’s FIFA Confederations Cup saw 100% broadcast efficiencies, Telkom said in a press statement today. The backbone ICT infrastructure for the event was provisioned by Telkom.

“In terms of our role in the broadcast value chain regarding communications provisioning for the Confederations Cup, there was not a single moment’s downtime that was experienced,” said Thami Magazi, Telkom’s Group Executive for Multi-National Customers.

He added: “The Telkom core network was stable for the duration of the entire tournament without a single incident on our network impacting customer service. Our ASTN (Automatic Switching Transfer Network) which ensured a built-in redundancy or back-up, as well as the second Telkom hub within each stadium, guaranteed that no network-related glitches on Telkom’s side resulted in customer services being interrupted.”

Magazi explained that the efficiency of Telkom’s network monitoring tools, which were complemented by the Group’s highly vaunted Network Operations Centre (NOC), enabled the early detection and response to possible interruptions to service provisioning. “As was required, the telecommunications solution that was defined and refined by Telkom provided for 99.99% availability with no single point of failure. We were able to surpass this,” stated Magazi.

Besides the four Confederation Cup stadia – Loftus Versveld, Coca-Cola Park, Royal Bafokeng and Bloemfontein – Telkom’s telecommunications equipment also extended to four hotels, four ticketing centres, FIFA’s headquarters at Sandton, SAFA house in Johannesburg, a Data Centre which included several VPNS (Virtual Private Network Supreme) links, the welcome desk at the OR Tambo Airport and the PC Factory based in Isando.

“The ubiquity, resilience and reliability of Telkom’s infrastructure were surpassed only by the expertise and determination of our personnel to ensure a successful Confederations Cup and, by extension, the 2010 FIFA World Cup as well,” said Magazi.

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