TENET doubles international bandwidth capacity with SEACOM
Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) recently handed over the first commercial fibre optic route linking the Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (TENET) to the SEACOM cable landing site at Mtunzini. “This will significantly increase bandwidth supply and improve international connectivity for research institutions in South Africa,” DFA said at the time.
TENET, a non-profit organisation, runs a national research and education network of more than 100 research sites within SA. TENET has now successfully integrated SEACOM bandwidth into its network, and is using the SEACOM capacity for all institutions connected on their GEN3 network.
TENET is currently still awaiting some circuit upgrades on their back-end, but according to TENET CTO Andrew Alston their network currently has around double the international bandwidth than pre-SEACOM. There is also far more to come.
“This will obviously expand hugely as things like the SANReN backbone come online and we are able to distribute more bandwidth via local points of presence using high speed circuits to the points of presence,” said Alston.
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