MWEB upgrades ADSL network
Two weeks ago MWEB surprised the market with its affordable uncapped offerings, starting from R219 for an uncapped DSL384 account.
The response from consumers has been very positive regarding MWEB’s uncapped service, and according to Derek Hershaw, CEO of MWEB ISP, the demand for their uncapped ADSL offerings has been ‘incredible’.
Hershaw said that their network is currently performing as expected and that they are scaling it as planned. To ensure that adequate bandwidth is available MWEB however recently upgraded both their local and international network portions.
“We have cut over our IPC [IPConnect] from Metro-Ethernet to Next Generation SDH, with additional bandwidth as well,” said Hershaw.
According to an MWEB notice the upgrade allows MWEB to easily increase bandwidth capacity, and promises big improvements in speeds, ‘especially for those who are on the shaped package’.
It is however not only straight sailing for MWEB after launching their own ADSL network. Last weekend the company had a failure on their fibre link between Midrand (where their Seacom bandwidth terminates) and their data centre at Victory Park.
“In fact, the line got washed away due to flooding. The redundant link also failed so on Sunday morning our international bandwidth was severely constrained for about 6 hours,” said Hershaw.
MWEB however took the opportunity to improve their network. “We have a new redundant link in place and we’ve taken additional capacity on our SAT3 bandwidth so we’re confident now that this won’t be an issue again,” said Hershaw.
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