SOUTH Africa’s Vodacom Business hailed its multi-million rand deal with BKS Group saying it would facilitate quality of service by prioritising time-sensitive traffic, including dedicated international internet bandwidth.
The company announced on Wednesday that it had secured a multi-million rand contract with the BKS Group, a South African-based multi-disciplinary consulting engineering and management company, to provide it with a managed service solution.
In a statement, Wally Beelders, Executive Director from Vodacom Business, said BKS had selected to work with Vodacom Business as the latter was able to provide BKS with a high-level Service Level Agreement, single bill aggregator as well as last mile access.
“We are passionate about Information Communication Technology (ICT) and pride ourselves in our comprehensive portfolio of ICT solutions to businesses across our state of the art converged network platform, which is built on world-class infrastructure,” Beeleders added.
As part of the contract, Vodacom Business will integrate BKS’s 17 offices around South Africa and Africa into Vodacom Business’ Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) network.
The MPLS network carries voice, video and data simultaneously and facilitates quality of service by prioritising time-sensitive traffic, including dedicated international internet bandwidth.
BKS would also move all of its servers to Vodacom Business’ new R100 million state-of-the-art data centre, including internet security solutions.
Jorge Nunes, Information Technology manager at BKS, says they selected Vodacom Business as they were able to offer BKS the latest in telecommunications technology.
“We chose Vodacom Business as they were able to offer us not only the latest in cutting edge technology to ensure we can effectively manage our business requirements, but they were also able to meet our stringent service level agreements. We have been extremely impressed with Vodacom Business and the way they are constantly looking towards the future in terms of technology needs.”
Vodacom created Vodacom Business last year as a vehicle for Vodacom to pursue opportunities in the broadband and ICT market without diverting attention from core business–ITNewsAfrica.
