Teraco Data Enviroments's Posts - The Data Center Vendor Database2024-03-28T12:11:26ZTeraco Data Enviromentshttp://www.datacentervendors.com/profile/TeracoDataEnviromentshttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2793029709?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://www.datacentervendors.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=2bl5t15hn25hc&xn_auth=noTelkom expands City-to-City network services with points of presence at Teracotag:www.datacentervendors.com,2010-10-25:3234673:BlogPost:5432010-10-25T10:10:51.000ZTeraco Data Enviromentshttp://www.datacentervendors.com/profile/TeracoDataEnviroments
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Isando, Johannesburg: 25 October 2010</span> - <a href="http://www.telkom.co.za/wholesale" target="_blank" title="">Telkom Wholesale</a><br />
has expanded the national network for its City-to-City International<br />
Links (CCIL) service with two new Points-of-Presence (PoPs) at <a href="http://www.teraco.co.za/" target="" title="">Teraco Data Environments</a>.<br />
One of the new PoPs will be located at Teraco Isando in Johannesburg<br />
and the other at Teraco Rondebosch in Cape…
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Isando, Johannesburg: 25 October 2010</span> - <a target="_blank" title="" href="http://www.telkom.co.za/wholesale">Telkom Wholesale</a><br />
has expanded the national network for its City-to-City International<br />
Links (CCIL) service with two new Points-of-Presence (PoPs) at <a target="" title="" href="http://www.teraco.co.za/">Teraco Data Environments</a>.<br />
One of the new PoPs will be located at Teraco Isando in Johannesburg<br />
and the other at Teraco Rondebosch in Cape Town, complementing Telkom’s<br />
own PoPs at the New Doornfontein exchange and Barrack Street.<br />
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Teraco’s data centres feature high-speed connections with security, fire<br />
protection, and cooling and cable management according to N+ 1<br />
resiliency. As South Africa’s first provider of vendor neutral data<br />
centre facilities, all major local networks already converge at Teraco.<br />
In early 2011, Teraco will open a second 500sqm data centre in Cape Town<br />
and add a new 500sqm facility in Durban.<br />
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The City-to-City will enable Telkom Wholesale to offer its customers,<br />
consisting of ECNS and ECS licensees, a secure, dedicated PoP-to-PoP<br />
data connection with a constant throughput (bit rate) from any one of<br />
the four South African points to a number of overseas locations. It will<br />
also give Telkom a connectivity hub to further grow its offering.<br />
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Telkom’s CCIL clients will have access to transmission speeds ranging<br />
from 2Mbit/s up to STM-16 on specific sub-marine cable systems. The use<br />
of end-to-end optic fibre will ensure extremely low latency and<br />
negligible service degradation.<br />
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Telkom will enable wholesale broadband connectivity services to all<br />
Service Providers that have Point of Presence (POPs) in Teraco in the<br />
form of STM-1 (opt) and GE (opt) physical interfaces with logical<br />
services of scalable bandwidth as required. Connectivity can be provided<br />
from Teraco sites to existing and future customer locations.<br />
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“The international connectivity options in South Africa are increasing<br />
and it is great to see how Telkom manages to stay on top of constant<br />
change,” says Lex van Wyk, managing director at Teraco.Broadband Infraco live by Q4tag:www.datacentervendors.com,2010-10-25:3234673:BlogPost:5422010-10-25T07:05:17.000ZTeraco Data Enviromentshttp://www.datacentervendors.com/profile/TeracoDataEnviroments
<p class="mrg_bot15"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The state-owned telecommunications backhaul network provider gives details about its road to launch as well as its launch date</span> <br></br><br></br>
Broadband Infraco was established in 2006 by the Department of Public<br />
Enterprises as an intervention to “rapidly normalise telecommunications<br />
market efficiency and address the cost of broadband to other industry<br />
players and end users, by having infrastructure in the national backbone<br />
and…</p>
<p class="mrg_bot15"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The state-owned telecommunications backhaul network provider gives details about its road to launch as well as its launch date</span> <br/><br/>
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Broadband Infraco was established in 2006 by the Department of Public<br />
Enterprises as an intervention to “rapidly normalise telecommunications<br />
market efficiency and address the cost of broadband to other industry<br />
players and end users, by having infrastructure in the national backbone<br />
and international connectivity at reduced prices.”<br />
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Late last year the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa<br />
(ICASA) awarded Broadband Infraco an Individual Electronic<br />
Communications Network Services (I-ECNS) licence, allowing it to provide<br />
electronic communications network services to other licenced operators<br />
using its own fibre optic network infrastructure.<br />
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Paul King, key accounts manager at Broadband Infraco detailed the road<br />
leading up to the operator's launch, the services they plan and his<br />
vision of the future of the Internet in South Africa.<br />
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Broadband Infraco acquired the fibre assets of Eskom and Transnet and<br />
outsourced the maintenance and operation thereof to Neotel.<br />
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Neotel had sole use of the network for four years until an Electronic<br />
Communications Network Services (ECNS) license was awarded to Infraco,<br />
King explained. This agreement hence fell away on 19 October last year<br />
when Infraco was licensed.<br />
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After receiving their license Infraco has been hard at work to bring<br />
services to the market, and King explained that part of the reason<br />
Infraco hasn't launched yet is because they wanted to ensure service<br />
levels on the network.<br />
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King said that very high service levels will be one of the main value<br />
propositions in the market, along with aggressive pricing which is one<br />
of the company’s core mandates.<br />
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Broadband Infraco will provide services based on the provisioning of<br />
high capacity managed bandwidth from Point of Presence (POP) to POP<br />
within their network.<br />
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These services are Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) based and<br />
available as STM-1 (155 Mbps), STM-4 (600 Mbps), STM-16 (2.5 Gbps),<br />
STM-64 (10 Gbps).<br />
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Infraco will have service level agreements (SLAs) of 99.5% for their<br />
standard offering and 99.95% for their high end offering. King however<br />
points out that they would like to increase these service levels to<br />
99.9% and 99.99% respectively in future.<br />
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Contract options include 10 year IRUs and 1, 3, 5 and 10 year leases.<br />
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At launch the network will have open access connectivity points in Gauteng, Cape Town and Durban.<br/><br/>
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In Gauteng those points are at Teraco Isando, Neotel Midrand and BCX<br />
Midrand. Cape Town's point is at Teraco Rondebosch and Durban's is at<br />
Internet Solutions (IS) Umhlanga Rocks.<br />
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King said that Broadband Infraco will launch in the fourth quarter of this year (Q4 2010).<br />
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<a href="http://mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/15265-Broadband-Infraco-launch-soon.html">http://mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/15265-Broadband-Infraco-launch-soon.html</a><br />
</p>Teraco Steps Up Global Best Practice With Top International Facilities Management Experttag:www.datacentervendors.com,2010-08-23:3234673:BlogPost:5412010-08-23T06:30:00.000ZTeraco Data Enviromentshttp://www.datacentervendors.com/profile/TeracoDataEnviroments
<p>Teraco Data Environments, South Africa’s first provider of vendor neutral data centres, has appointed Brendan Dysel as its facilities manager. Originally hailing from Port Elizabeth, he returns to South
Africa bringing a decade of expertise in facilities management and<br />
engineering in some of the world’s most advanced data centre operations.</p>
<br></br><p>Prior to Teraco, Dysel worked at Credit Suisse, an international financial services group, where he was the engineering manager.…</p>
<p>Teraco Data Environments, South Africa’s first provider of vendor neutral data centres, has appointed Brendan Dysel as its facilities
manager. Originally hailing from Port Elizabeth, he returns to South<br />
Africa bringing a decade of expertise in facilities management and<br />
engineering in some of the world’s most advanced data centre operations.</p>
<br/><p>Prior to Teraco, Dysel worked at Credit Suisse, an international
financial services group, where he was the engineering manager. This<br />
entailed looking after all eleven the company’s UK data centres,<br />
including a new £52m facility in Slough. Before that, he was the data<br />
centre manager at data centre maintenance contractors, Elyo Services and<br />
Johnson Controls (for Morgan Stanley).<br />
</p>
<br/><p>Dysel brings to South Africa a methodical approach to data centre
design, build, management and preventive maintenance. His experience<br />
will give Teraco a solid foundation for growth, while ensuring Teraco<br />
lives up to its promise of global best practice as the company expands.<br />
</p>
<br/><p>Dysel will work closely with Gys Geyser, head of operations at Teraco,
to manage and oversee provisioning from utilities and infrastructure<br />
development at the company’s multiple sites. His responsibilities will<br />
include process and procedure management, demand forecasting, capacity<br />
management and the implementation of additional power efficiency<br />
improvements to ensure clients see steady advances in cost saving<br />
techniques. His priority project will include overseeing the design of<br />
phase two of the Cape Town data centre, and the commissioning of the<br />
fourth data centre in Durban during the first quarter of 2011.<br />
</p>
<br/><p>“Brendan brings us a wealth of experience in managing large-scale,
mission-critical data centres to complement our existing mix of skills,”<br />
says Lex van Wyk, managing director of Teraco. “He also has experience<br />
in information systems for the financial sector, which has incredibly<br />
strict standards and procedures. This will further raise the bar at<br />
Teraco, giving our customers a great deal of confidence that their<br />
valuable information systems are safe with us.”<br />
</p>