TelCables South Africa, which offers a range of secure connectivity solutions to the Southern African market, says it has upgraded its backbone network infrastructure to accommodate the rapidly growing data traffic across its network and to provide faster, more secure connectivity.
Mahen Naidu, Head of Business Solutions at TelCables South Africa, explains: “We have experienced double-digit growth in traffic over our network in recent months and have increased our bandwidth from 500 Gbps to 800 Gbps to provide more seamless connectivity and improved performance to meet the growing demand from business to better manage their SD-WAN, Cloud and data traffic requirements.”
The company, a subsidiary of ICT solutions and services provider Angola Cables, has also opened two new points of presence (PoPs) at NTT Parklands and at Xneelo Samrand in Johannesburg. This is on the back of the recently established Durban PoP, located at the Teraco Riverhorse DB1 data centre in Durban.
Overall, says TelCables, the upgraded network will now give customers 100GE capabilities when routing via data centres Teraco JB1 in Johannesburg, Teraco CT1 in Cape Town and Teraco DB1. This means that network providers and other operators will be able to further expand their networks, increase their customer base and reconfigure traffic flows as and when required without disrupting network traffic or incurring multiple cross-connect fees.
TelCables is powered by the Angola Cables global subsea network, and thus, it says, is able to provide customers with better routing options to markets in Latin America, the USA and Europe, an important consideration for customers that have been impacted by cable disruptions in the Red Sea who need quick and efficient redundancy routing option.
Naidu says: “The upgrades will ensure that we can accommodate more traffic from both existing and new cables and offer better, more flexible options for the transit of IP traffic across the continent and to other parts of the world.”