Internet Solutions testing SEACOM
In June this year Internet Solutions (IS) said that the paradigm in the South African broadband market is changing, with the commercial principles behind the SEACOM fibre optic undersea cable driving the shift towards a high speed, high capacity Internet connectivity environment.
“SEACOM is an important milestone for the local telecommunications industry as it is the first time that South African service providers, other than Telkom, will be able to make a long term investment in the provisioning of high speed, high capacity international connectivity,” said Hillel Shrock, Business Solutions Director at IS.
“Previously ISPs had to rely on short term contracts from a single operator to supply fixed line capacity to our customers, which often did not benefit all levels of the value chain.”
SEACOM CEO Brian Herlihy pointed out that IS is an anchor tenant with SEACOM and was in fact the first service provider to secure substantial capacity with the new undersea cable system when it signed an indefeasible long term contract in July 2007.
The SEACOM cable became operational on 23 July, and IS has started testing the new system. “IS is currently in the testing phase of SEACOM and will launch a SEACOM product and related pricing once the testing has been completed,” said Shrock.
Anchor tenants like IS which purchased significant capacity on SEACOM, typically a 10 Gbps STM-64 circuit, will play a paramount role in driving down the international bandwidth costs in South Africa.
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