Connection Telecom has moved into a second data centre in The Great Westerford, Newlands, Cape Town, mirroring its primary hosted platform in Gauteng for unmatched service assurance, performance and value.
CEO Dave Meintjes says the move to dual data centre redundancy is a first in South Africa, and was made in continued partnership with best-in-class hosting partner Teraco. The new arrangement went live in October 2014, the month of Connection Telecom’s 10th anniversary.
Connection Telecom initially hosted its service in Samrand, Midrand, when it launched its cloud-based PBX service in 2010. In 2012, rapid growth necessitated a move to Teraco’s Isando, Johannesburg data centre.
“The R2-million infrastructure investment created complete site, network and power redundancy for our hosted voice and unified communications offerings,” says Meintjes.
The latest development will provide additional real-time redundancy between the two cities, by way of multiple interconnect partner routes between both centres and via Durban, he adds.
“Our association with Teraco gives us access to numerous network partners and their extensive fibre footprints, including a ‘protected fibre ring’ around the three major urban centres,” says Meintjes. “This augments rollout by focused fibre providers such as Dark Fibre Africa, Internet Solutions, Neotel, Macrolan, SAINET, Telkom and XDSL. It allows us a highly leveraged means of scaling.”
In addition, the new data centre gives the company an extra international route via the undersea WACS cable along the West African coast, to bolster its existing exit routes via Seacom out of Johannesburg and Cape Town.
A presence in Cape Town further expedites the on-boarding of local customers, as it allows them to easily activate services over their existing corporate access networks.
