More fibre coming
Vodacom recently unveiled its state-of-the-art datacentre in Midrand, with two more of its kind in the pipeline for Cape Town and Kwazulu-Natal.
These three datacentres will be connected via a national fibre backbone, creating a very robust and redundant data hosting network for Vodacom Business.
It is well known that Vodacom is already deploying inner-city fibre networks, but it has up to now not elaborated on its national, inter city fibre plans.
According to Vodacom Business executive Wally Beelders, the company has partnered with Neotel and MTN for its inter-city network.
MTN has previously said that it will invest in a national fibre network, and was keen to partner with other companies to achieve its goals.
It has previously been mentioned by Google SA country manager Stafford Masie that we may find that after the landing of SEACOM, which promises up to a maximum of 1.27 Tbps of international bandwidth, that local infrastructure may become the bandwidth bottleneck rather than the international portion.
Companies such as Neotel, Dark Fibre Africa, MTN, Vodacom and Telkom have all been rolling out fibre to ensure that they have adequate backhaul capacity to serve their future needs.
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