AFRICA.INX, South Africa’s first and only independent network exchange, announced yesterday, highly competitive rates in the ISP industry, independence and freedom of choice for its customers as of 1st March 2010.
The company, launched in October 2009, prepares to break telecom operators traditional “leadership” in the market by providing cheaper and reliable Internet solutions with the help of a number of local players already on board, including Sat3, Seacom,Terako.
“Africa.INX will, without doubt, go live on the 1st of March 2010”, states a confident Eduard du Plessis, CEO for Africa.INX. The company fully endorses Juniper standards and technology and has already redundancy systems in place for North, South and East, West system failures.
The network was established through dual connections in London, using both the Sat3 and Seacom submarine fibre optic cable systems. On South African grounds, two separate data nodes were established in Johannesburg and Cape Town. “These nodes are connected to metro Ethernet rings. As a result of the network ring topology, we have created fully redundant systems. This means that if a break occurs anywhere on the network ring, connectivity will not be lost”, says du Plessis. Additional nodes in Port Elizabeth and Durban are connected to Cape Town and respectively Johannesburg.
The various NNIs (Network to Network Interfaces) in London allow other networks to expand throughout the developed world, allowing Africa.INX network to go for a similar level coverage around the globe. Also, international ISPs can establish their presence in South Africa without installing any infrastructure, through Africa.INX network.
AFRICA.INX is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ensync Network Solutions (Pty) Ltd and offers access to a wide range of converged services, including VoIP, international and local Internet / IP transit, international and local Internet peering, international and local NNI (Network to Network Interface or Interconnect), ADSL wholesale IP Connect and metro fibre access.
