Internet Solutions, a division of Dimension Data and part of the NTT group, announced the deployment of Infinera’s DTN-X platform across its South African long distance network.
Internet Solutions provides telecommunications services to public and private sector companies across South Africa and serves more than 80% of companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
The Infinera Intelligent Transport Network solution enables Internet Solutions to offer 10, 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet services to its clients across the long distance fibres it manages across South Africa with short lead times, leading prices and excellent reliability. Infinera’s platform delivers the industry’s only commercially available 500 Gbps FlexCoherent super-channels based on its photonic integrated circuits. It is the first such deployment for South Africa and the African continent.
“The Infinera Intelligent Transport Network solution provides us with a cutting edge optical transport solution, allowing us to offer the highest lit capacity in a South African backbone,” said Prenesh Padayachee, CTO at Internet Solutions. “Internet Solutions is at the forefront of utilising the latest technology that will ensure reliable and rapid service delivery to our clients and it is critical that our vendors are able to deliver the latest and most cutting edge technology. Infinera has delivered this through their intelligent transport network system.”
