{"id":30472,"date":"2013-01-24T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=30472"},"modified":"2013-01-28T14:59:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T12:59:38","slug":"level-3-enters-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/30472\/level-3-enters-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Level 3 enters South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Level 3 Communications<\/a>, one of the world\u2019s largest IP services providers, is set to launch a wide range of IP products and services in South Africa. This includes international IP transit services, CDNs, broadcast services and MPLS VPN products.<\/p>\n

Peter Davies<\/a>, Level 3\u2019s master agent for Africa, told MyBroadband that the company’s first CDN offerings are already live. Most of the other services \u2013 including IP transit offerings \u2013 will be operational by mid-April.<\/p>\n

Level 3 is establishing an IP node in Johannesburg \u2013 in the vendor-neutral Teraco<\/a> data centre \u2013 and will complement this presence with a Cape Town node later in the year.<\/p>\n

Davies said that Level 3 is currently in negotiations with all the submarine cable system companies in South Africa, and will offer services over all these systems in future. This includes SAT-3<\/a>, EASSy<\/a>, SEACOM<\/a> and WACS.<\/p>\n

Davies highlighted that Level 3 will be offering the full suite of products available from the company, globally. As an international tier 1 provider, he said, local providers can expect better connectivity, higher speeds and an overall great experience.<\/p>\n

Great international bandwidth prices<\/h3>\n
\"Level<\/a>

Level 3 international network<\/p><\/div>\n

Two local Internet Service providers (ISPs), which have been contacted by Level 3, told MyBroadband that the international bandwidth and transit prices from Level 3 are very aggressive.<\/p>\n

According to these ISPs, the Level 3 rates are significantly lower than current market prices from providers like Neotel<\/a> and Telkom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, Davies downplayed its apparent lower prices, saying that it is the overall value proposition which is the biggest draw-card for South African operators and service providers.<\/p>\n

Level 3 not completely new to South Africa<\/h3>\n
\"Derek<\/a>

Derek Hershaw – MWEB<\/p><\/div>\n

Level 3 is not completely new to South Africa. In March 2012, MWEB<\/a> announced that it had concluded an agreement with Level 3 Communications to exchange traffic with Level 3\u2019s global IP network and content distribution network (CDN).<\/p>\n

This agreement, MWEB said at the time, would bring services to South Africa and the Southern African region.<\/p>\n

Davies said that MWEB\u2019s CDN node has been live for some time, adding that the ISP is already offering a wide range of Level 3 services to the Naspers<\/a> group.<\/p>\n

MWEB ISP CEO, Derek Hershaw<\/a> said that the company speaks to Level 3 regularly. \u201cWe have a very close working relationship on the back of our CDN agreement,\u201d said Hershaw.<\/p>\n

However, Hershaw said that MWEB is not looking for international bandwidth services at this stage as \u201cwe have sufficient capacity on Seacom and on WACS\u201d.<\/p>\n

More Level 3 and Internet articles<\/h3>\n

MWEB boosts content delivery with Level 3 agreement<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Boosting MWEB\u2019s uncapped ADSL performance<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Boosting SA\u2019s Internet content delivery through CDNs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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