{"id":772,"date":"2007-07-26T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-26T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T08:13:00","slug":"neotel-s-neolink-off-to-a-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/772-neotel-s-neolink-off-to-a-good-start.html","title":{"rendered":"Neotel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Neolink off to a good start"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neotel<\/a> launched its National Private Leased Line services – called Neolink – in May this year. NeoLink provides companies with dedicated leased line services offering point-to-point connectivity.<\/p>\n

NeoLink give symmetrical capacity with transmission speeds of 2, 34, 45 or 155 Mbit\/s, and Neotel points out that clients have a choice of interfaces tailored to their needs.<\/p>\n

Mala Suriah, spokesperson for Neotel, says that the response from businesses has been very positive. She pointed out that Neotel is currently following a ‘targeted approach’ with their Neolink products, engaging mainly with large businesses.<\/p>\n

Suriah said that these businesses are very receptive towards their offerings, and that they currently have between 20 and 30 medium to large businesses utilizing their network in either a testing capacity or as full clients. Suriah points out that Neotel is also engaging with many more large businesses. <\/p>\n

Neotel currently has next-generation DWDM<\/a> and SDH<\/a>-based optical fibre network<\/a> links in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town and it plans to cover Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth and East London in the near future.<\/p>\n

Cape Town office<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neotel has also expanded their initial Gauteng based presence and now have offices in Cape Town and Durban. <\/p>\n

Their Cape Town office currently has 12 people – mainly on the networking side – while their Durban office has 10 employees.<\/p>\n

Neotel’s full staff compliment has grown to 200 from around 40 people at the time of their launch in August last year. <\/p>\n

Neotel is currently trialing their CDMA based high-speed-internet service and is further planning to launch a true broadband offering using WiMax at the end of this year.<\/p>\n

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Neotel launched their Neolink leased line services earlier this year, and the initial market response has been positive the company says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}