As the move towards cloud-based services and big data requirements increases, Internet connectivity needs continue to grow exponentially. Through its drive to deliver high speed Internet across South Africa, FibreCo is ramping up its efforts to expand its network to take broadband to more of South Africa’s outlying areas that desperately need reliable high-speed connectivity.
FibreCo’s CEO, Simon Harvey, believes that “whilst there are high speed networks connecting major cities, including our own, there are a lot of areas not as well connected and as such FibreCo is on a drive to close these gaps”.
Since incorporation in 2009 and commencement of operations in 2013, FibreCo has established itself as a leading open access, national fibre network operator offering bespoke, high capacity data transmission solutions, including dark fibre, capacity and infrastructure hosting facilities to operators, ISPs, Government and enterprises throughout South Africa. FibreCo owns and operates both national long distance and metro fibre optic networks throughout South Africa in cities such as Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth, East London and Kimberley as well as to the submarine cable landing stations of SAFE, SAT3, Seacom, EASSy and WACS.
FibreCo is aggressively expanding its network and by the end of the year will light up towns along its major routes including along the N3, N12/N8, N6 and N1. This is just a start of its ambitious expansion plans that will start to open opportunities for ISPs and WISPs who will be able to expand their own networks in the towns along these routes as well as meeting the growing cloud services demand of its clients.
While fibre is its core business, FibreCo is technology-agnostic when it comes to access connectivity and has started to deploy its own towers in the regional areas to host and deploy wireless solutions for connectivity to sites further afield. Furthermore, as a carrier services provider, FibreCo offers a specialised services portfolio throughout South Africa aimed at service providers including open access infrastructure, managed services, professional services and connectivity services providing an end to end solution for clients with best in class SLA’s.
“Improving connectivity in the outlying areas for both the public and private sectors has a positive socio-economic impact on the area and helps to meet the nation’s aspirations for world-class broadband connectivity – but it needs to be affordable.” says Harvey.
For more information, visit the FibreCo website.
