{"id":69,"date":"2026-02-18T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/reflex-solutions\/?p=69"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:26:00","slug":"reflex-and-onitel-strengthen-carrier-grade-infrastructure-at-reflex-dunkeld-data-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/reflex-solutions\/2026\/02\/18\/reflex-and-onitel-strengthen-carrier-grade-infrastructure-at-reflex-dunkeld-data-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflex and Onitel Strengthen Carrier-Grade Infrastructure at Reflex Dunkeld Data Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brand-New Fibre Infrastructure with Triple Route Redundancy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This partnership empowers Reflex to deliver high-capacity, low-latency data centre-to-data centre (DC-to-DC) connectivity to its clients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With scalable bandwidth built to support expanding enterprise workloads and carrier interconnect demands, clients benefit from performance, redundancy, and reliability at scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Designed for Resilience, Built for Scale<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s digital ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The additional fibre routes materially enhance infrastructure resilience and strengthen its 100% uptime performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis partnership is about delivering tangible resilience,\u201d said Charles Castle, Head of Commercial &amp; Sales at Reflex Carrier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellisha Gobind, Chief Commercial Officer at Onitel, added:<\/em> \u201cThrough 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\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Should You Care?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For carrier and enterprise CIOs, infrastructure risk is business risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Single entry fibre routes, ageing infrastructure and limited path diversity create exposure, whether through fibre cuts, maintenance windows or unexpected outages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This partnership directly reduces that exposure by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Introducing three physically diverse routes into the facility<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enhancing DC-to-DC interconnect capability<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Increasing bandwidth scalability via DWDM<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strengthening geographic diversity for disaster recovery strategies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Market leading pricing&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In short: more resilience, more capacity, less operational risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Benefit to You<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For Carriers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Improved interconnect density and path diversity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scalable, high-capacity backbone support<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enhanced redundancy for wholesale and enterprise services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reduced outage risk across core infrastructure<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New reliable infrastructure&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For Enterprise CIOs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stronger disaster recovery positioning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seamless multi-site and hybrid cloud integration<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lower latency between data centre environments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greater confidence in uptime and business continuity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Agile and accessible&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Reflex\u2013Onitel 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know uptime isn\u2019t a metric, it\u2019s a mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,3],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-onitel","tag-reflex-solutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/reflex-solutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/reflex-solutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/reflex-solutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/reflex-solutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/reflex-solutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/reflex-solutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/reflex-solutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/reflex-solutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/reflex-solutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/reflex-solutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/companies.mybroadband.co.za\/reflex-solutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}