Telkom expands super-fast broadband network
Telkom has expanded its super-fast 20Mbps and 40Mbps VDSL network to 240 Multi-Service Access Node (MSAN) units, the company announced on Friday (21 June 2013).
Telkom launched its commercial VDSL services in March 2013, after conducting trials of the technology in 53 areas in South Africa. Telkom has now expanded the sites and has deployed 124,640 active ports on the network, it said.
The company has also taken fibre directly into 3,150 office blocks and business parks, it said, thus embarking the process of decommissioning large copper cables that previously served the buildings.
“This has improved service to these office parks and buildings and reduced our exposure to, amongst others, rampant cable theft. This major drive to get fibre to these buildings will continue,” Telkom said.
To fully test its newly-deployed MSAN technology, Telkom has also embarked on the Fibre to the Home and Fibre to the Business (FTTH/B) Technical Proof of Concept Project.
According to the telco, at March 2013, the company had delivered its first 100Mbps service to business and residential customers.
Managing director of wholesale and networks at Telkom, Bashier Sallie said that, apart from moving past 200 deployed MSANs, another 53 are ready to be rolled out in the near future together with a further four exchanges representing some 175 MSANs.
“We are highly satisfied with the rapidly increasing pace at which the new generation broadband network is being deployed,” Sallie said.
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