Fibre regeneration sites go live

Fibre regeneration sites go live

Plessey has completed 11 regeneration sites designed to boost the amount of bandwidth capacity available in South Africa.

The sites were completed on deadline for a fibre optic cable being installed by Dark Fibre Africa (DFA), and are strategically located along the cable’s route from Pretoria to Empangeni in KwaZulu Natal.

The regeneration sites, owned by Plessey, will allow DFA and its customers to regenerate the communications signals that are passing through the fibre optic cable allowing them to be transmitted over large distances.

Each site will have mains power, a back-up generator and battery back-up facilities, providing highly resilient power to ensure that all sites are available 99,95% of the time.

Plessey will monitor each site from its network operations centre in Midrand. It will also station technicians along the route to carry out preventative maintenance and respond to any incidents.

“Plessey is extremely pleased to deliver these sites as well as our network operations and management capability on time to meet DFA’s requirements,” asys operations & management executive Paul King. “This demonstrates that Plessey not only has the capability to deliver complex telecommunications infrastructure solutions, but is also able to provide efficient and reliable operations and management services in very remote locations.”

Plessey has a 15-year contract with DFA to provide space and power within each of the 11 sites to DFA and to large corporate customers who lease dark fibre on the cable.

The sites are located at Bronkhorstspruit, Middleburg, Hendrina, Ermelo, Panbult, Piet Retief, Paul Pietersberg, Vryheid, Zulu Rock, Melmoth and Empangeni.

— Source: ITWeb