Fibre-optic regeneration sites ready for action

Fibre-optic regeneration sites ready for action

Telecommunications company Plessey has completed 11 Regeneration Sites designed to boost the amount of bandwidth capacity available in South Africa.The Regeneration Sites were completed on 31 January 2011, the deadline for a fibre-optic cable being installed by Dark Fibre Africa (DFA).

The sites are strategically located along the cable's route from Pretoria to Empangeni, in KwaZulu-Natal.The technology installed by Plessey will strengthen - or regenerate - the communications signals that are passing through the fibre-optic cable when the distances being covered grow too great.Each site has 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. . . 

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— Source: Albuquerque Express