{"id":31291,"date":"2013-02-06T15:50:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T13:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=31291"},"modified":"2013-05-22T13:18:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T11:18:41","slug":"mtn-lights-up-national-fibre-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/31291\/mtn-lights-up-national-fibre-network\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN lights up national fibre network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has lit up its portion of the National Long Distance (NLD) fibre network between Germiston and Durban on 24 January 2013. This follows the completion of the trenching of almost 700km of fibre optic cable in December 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The National Long Distance (NLD) network is a partnership between MTN, Vodacom, Neotel and SANRAL (South African National Road Agency Limited) which will connect South Africa\u2019s major centres.<\/p>\n<p>The system currently supports 400Gbps of traffic, and is scalable to meet future requirements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project marks a significant achievement and milestone in our self-provisioning strategy,\u201d said Kanagaratnam (Lambo) Lambotharan, chief technology officer at MTN SA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe transmission system used on the route is completely managed by MTN and is testament to our commitment to connecting South Africa to the world with high-speed data,\u201d said Lambotharan.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More fibre articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Bandwidth isn\u2019t free, but it\u2019s darn cheap\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/61106-bandwidth-isnt-free-but-its-darn-cheap.html\"><strong>Bandwidth isn\u2019t free, but it\u2019s darn cheap<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cheaper connectivity through fibre network\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/international\/22186\/cheaper-connectivity-through-fibre-network\/\"><strong>Cheaper connectivity through fibre network<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DFA enters Mthatha with R10m kitty\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/22157\/dfa-enters-mthatha-with-r10m-kitty\/\"><strong>DFA enters Mthatha with R10m kitty<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"FibreCo on target for East London 2013 date\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/21752\/fibreco-on-target-for-east-london-2013-date\/\"><strong>FibreCo on target for East London 2013 date<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has lit up its portion of the National Long Distance (NLD) fibre network between Germiston and Durban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5553],"tags":[25,1622,28,261,429,27],"class_list":["post-31291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-active","tag-fibre","tag-mtn","tag-neotel","tag-sanral","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31291"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31293,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31291\/revisions\/31293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}