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Telkom’s network freeze comes to an end tomorrow which means that network upgrades will start again
Over the last four weeks football fever gripped the South African nation, but the impact on the local telecommunications sector was more than merely hungover employees or worker absenteeism during important daytime games.
Telkom had to adhere to a FIFA imposed network freeze period from 05 May 2010 until 16 July 2010 during which no planned maintenance or upgrades could be done on Telkom’s core network.
According to Bashier Sallie, Telkom’s Senior Managing Executive for Wholesale and Networks, this network freeze was needed to ensure that the 2010 FIFA World Cup was delivered across a network architecture that is secure, stable and resilient.
Telkom did however conduct some work on the network where it was unlikely to have an impact on services related to the World Cup. “Work requests on the network were assessed as per the prescribed process on a case by case basis and in many instances have continued even during the ‘Freeze’, where the risk was either non-existent or minimal in respect to disruption to FIFA World Cup 2010 facilities and services,” the company said.
Network freeze to end tomorrow
Good news is that the network freeze is on track to be lifted tomorrow after which it will be ‘business as usual’ for Telkom.
“All normal Telecommunications Network Construction and Service Configuration work will now continue – with ‘business as usual’. In instances where work was held up due to the ‘freeze’ – this work will be prioritised and accelerated,” Telkom said.
These upgrades include IPC capacity upgrades and the upgrade of exchanges which may offer 10 Mbps ADSL in future. Telkom however pointed out that as far as ADSL backhaul is concerned, work has continued in exchanges that were not affected by the FIFA World Cup 2010 network freeze.
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