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FibreCo increases dark fibre
resilience from Johannesburg
to Durban
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FibreCo has gone
live on its open
access dark fibre link
along the N3 from
Johannesburg to
Durban
F
ibreCo has gone live on its open access dark fibre link along the
N3 from Johannesburg to Durban including the subsea cable
landing stations of SEACOM and EASSy on the east coast.
The N3, Johannesburg to Durban, is a strategic link for FibreCo
providing the shortest dark fibre route inter-connecting the regional
data centres of Internet Solutions and Teraco as well as the
SEACOM and EASSy subsea cable systems. The route also provides
connectivity to sites along the route including Germiston, Heidelberg,
Warden, Harrismith, Ladysmith, Estcourt and Pietermaritzburg and
the cable landing station in Mtunzini.
“Our continued investment in open access infrastructure enables us
to respond to the growing needs of our clients,” said Simon Harvey,
CEO FibreCo. “This investment provides a long awaited open access
redundant dark fibre infrastructure to the existing connectivity
making the multiple Tbps of Internet connectivity from the subsea
cables more resilient.”
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Venita Engelbrecht, Head of Technology at FibreCo, added: “Our
clients are able to lease dark fibre and connect using their own
optical equipment, hosted at our built for purpose repeater sites,
allowing complete flexibility of managing their own network.
Alternatively, they can use FibreCo’s state-of-the-art 100Gbps
DWDM network which provides connectivity between the key data
centres and to the cable landing stations.”
Spanning over 4,000km, FibreCo’s open access network consists
of underground fibre routes, high speed optical equipment,
carrier-grade Ethernet equipment and hosting and tower facilities
interconnecting over 59 points of presence country-wide, including
major data centres in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Bloemfontein,
Durban, Port Elizabeth and East London.
Since inception in 2009, FibreCo’s mission has been to provide direct
access to infrastructure, in order to lower the cost of connectivity for
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