Neology – telecoms tech for Africa
South African tech company, Neology, is fast growing its presence in Africa with their range of software solutions, managed services and wholesale ISP and telecoms products.
Neology was founded in 2005 by Roelf Diedericks, Matthew Austin and Regardt van de Vyver, and since their humble beginning with only a handful of clients, they have grown their footprint to nine African countries.
Neology founder and CTO, Roelf Diedericks, says that their telecoms and ISP products are used by companies in South Africa, Lesotho, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Tanzania.
Neology’s clients include well known South African Internet service providers like iBurst, Internet Solutions, WebAfrica, and SAINET.
“Our wholesale IP network provides international capacity via SAT3/SAFE, and EASSY, Telkom IPC and other networks. We are also one of JINX’s fastest growing peers, and have plans to extend to DINX and/or CINX this year,” says Diedericks.
“We operate our own boutique datacentre and free peering point in Midrand, and offer wholesale access to a variety of carrier services for our ISP customers.”
While Diedericks would not divulge financial figures, he highlighted that Neology grew their sold bandwidth capacity by 300% over the last year. The company also showed 80% growth in their software systems sales.
Product focus for 2012
Neology says that convergence remains a top priority for them in 2012, and will continue to “deliver on true convergence – cellular, DSL, and other technologies accessible within a single ISP account”.
Diedericks added that they are keeping a keen eye on local loop unbundling (LLU), because they have a number of products (such as a cost effective L2TP solution) just waiting for LLU.
“Our view is that Bitstream will be the first LLU step, and we are gearing up for it. We are also in the process of acquiring wholesale access on a layer 2 (bitstream) style basis on a number of other local networks, however these are still under negotiations,” said Diedericks.
“We are also planning to extend our IPV6 services, as we are currently one of the largest IPV6 carriers in Africa today.”
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