Reflex and Onitel have announced a strategic partnership that significantly enhances resilience, redundancy and interconnectivity at the Reflex Dunkeld Data Centre for its clients, delivering measurable advantages to carriers and enterprise organisations operating mission-critical environments co-locating in the Dunkeld Data Centre.
Brand-New Fibre Infrastructure with Triple Route Redundancy
The deployment introduces three diverse fibre routes entering the Reflex Dunkeld facility, creating an added layer of physical path diversity and reducing single points of failure.
This partnership empowers Reflex to deliver high-capacity, low-latency data centre-to-data centre (DC-to-DC) connectivity to its clients.
With scalable bandwidth built to support expanding enterprise workloads and carrier interconnect demands, clients benefit from performance, redundancy, and reliability at scale.
The Dunkeld facility operates as a Tier 3 edge data centre, strategically positioned to support distributed architectures, hybrid cloud strategies and geographically diverse disaster recovery environments.
Designed for Resilience, Built for Scale
With enhanced DC-to-DC interconnectivity and brand-new fibre architecture, the Dunkeld site strengthens its position as a high-performance edge node within Johannesburg’s digital ecosystem.
The additional fibre routes materially enhance infrastructure resilience and strengthen its 100% uptime performance.
“This partnership is about delivering tangible resilience,” said Charles Castle, Head of Commercial & Sales at Reflex Carrier.
“With three diverse routes and high-capacity DWDM now in place, we are providing carrier and enterprise clients with a stronger, future-ready service. It meaningfully enhances redundancy and business continuity.”
Ellisha Gobind, Chief Commercial Officer at Onitel, added: “Through this strategic partnership, enterprise and carrier businesses are provided with state-of-the-art, high-performance fibre infrastructure specifically engineered to meet the escalating demands of modern operations. This collaboration delivers a future-proof solution, meticulously designed to scale seamlessly without compromising reliability, thereby empowering businesses to expand their operations with confidence. By combining expertise, this partnership ensures a robust, resilient, and adaptable infrastructure, tailored to support sustained growth and navigate the complexities of an ever-evolving digital landscape”
Why Should You Care?
For carrier and enterprise CIOs, infrastructure risk is business risk.
Single entry fibre routes, ageing infrastructure and limited path diversity create exposure, whether through fibre cuts, maintenance windows or unexpected outages.
This partnership directly reduces that exposure by:
- Introducing three physically diverse routes into the facility
- Enhancing DC-to-DC interconnect capability
- Increasing bandwidth scalability via DWDM
- Strengthening geographic diversity for disaster recovery strategies
- Market leading pricing
In short: more resilience, more capacity, less operational risk.
Benefit to You
For Carriers
- Improved interconnect density and path diversity
- Scalable, high-capacity backbone support
- Enhanced redundancy for wholesale and enterprise services
- Reduced outage risk across core infrastructure
- New reliable infrastructure
For Enterprise CIOs
- Stronger disaster recovery positioning
- Seamless multi-site and hybrid cloud integration
- Lower latency between data centre environments
- Greater confidence in uptime and business continuity
- Agile and accessible
The Reflex–Onitel partnership positions the Dunkeld Data Centre as a resilient, edge-enabled facility capable of supporting evolving digital, cloud, AI and connectivity demand in high-availability environments.
