Telkom Wholesale has expanded the national network for its City-to-City International Links (CCIL) service with two new Points-of-Presence (PoPs) at Teraco Data Environments.<\/p>\n
One of the new PoPs will be located at Teraco Isando in Johannesburg and the other at Teraco Rondebosch in Cape Town, complementing Telkom’s own PoPs at the New Doornfontein exchange and Barrack Street.<\/p>\n
Teraco’s data centres feature high-speed connections with security, fire protection, and cooling and cable management according to N+ 1 resiliency.<\/p>\n
“As South Africa’s first provider of vendor neutral data centre facilities, all major local networks already converge at Teraco. In early 2011, Teraco will open a second 500sqm data centre in Cape Town and add a new 500sqm facility in Durban,” Teraco said in a press statement.<\/p>\n
The City-to-City will enable Telkom Wholesale to offer its customers, consisting of ECNS and ECS licensees, a secure, dedicated PoP-to-PoP data connection with a constant throughput (bit rate) from any one of the four South African points to a number of overseas locations. It will also give Telkom a connectivity hub to further grow its offering.<\/p>\n
Telkom’s CCIL clients will have access to transmission speeds ranging from 2Mbit\/s up to STM-16 on specific sub-marine cable systems. The use of end-to-end optic fibre will ensure extremely low latency and negligible service degradation.<\/p>\n
Telkom will enable wholesale broadband connectivity services to all Service Providers that have Point of Presence (POP) in Teraco in the form of STM-1 (opt) and GE (opt) physical interfaces with logical services of scalable bandwidth as required. Connectivity can be provided from Teraco sites to existing and future customer locations.<\/p>\n
“The international connectivity options in South Africa are increasing and it is great to see how Telkom manages to stay on top of constant change,” says Lex van Wyk, managing director at Teraco.<\/p>\n