{"id":6787,"date":"2012-02-27T20:46:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T20:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=6787"},"modified":"2012-02-27T23:41:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T23:41:33","slug":"vodacom-business-to-boost-broadband-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/6787\/vodacom-business-to-boost-broadband-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom Business to boost broadband access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom Business will boost their broadband access product range with new wireless and fibre connectivity options. This is word from Janine Rebelo, executive head of access services from Vodacom Business.<\/p>\n<p>Rebelo told MyBroadband BusinessTech that the company will launch new access services aimed at the business market, including wireless (Wi-Fi) and fibre products.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier grade Wi-Fi products will use 5.8GHz spectrum, providing clients with reliable, high-speed connections.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom Business is also planning to roll out their own fibre network to provide businesses with fibre connections. This initiative is in-line with Vodafone\u2019s roadmap to provide fibre to the premises (FTTx) and fibre to the home (FTTH) services, to support bandwidth-intensive applications.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom Business already offers a wide range of access services &#8211; including ADSL, leased lines, satellite connections and mobile broadband connectivity \u2013 but Rebelo says that the additional access options will help to boost their competitiveness in the telecoms market.<\/p>\n<p>These new high-speed connections will further support Vodacom\u2019s new unified communications products and cloud services.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom Business\u2019 executive head for managed network services, <a title=\"Person Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/283417-Gary-Hart\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Hart<\/a>, highlights that reliable, high-speed connections are needed to support bandwidth-intensive applications like business-grade video conferencing and other multimedia offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom Business will increase their range of connectivity options in the business market with fibre access and new wireless options<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,27,1712],"class_list":["post-6787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-vodacom","tag-vodacom-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6787"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6794,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions\/6794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}