Browsing: Teraco

MWeb upgrades its network

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Internet service provider MWeb has completed what it calls a “four-phase infrastructure and backbone upgrade” that now means it’s running a 10Gbit/s connection between SA’s three biggest cities and offering subscribers in Durban a more direct route into its network

Seacom boasts 500Gbit/s fibre link

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Seacom on Monday demonstrated new “five times 100Gbit/s-per-wave” fibre technology (500Gbit/s in total) as well as its new fibre connection between Teraco’s Johannesburg data centre and Seacom’s submarine cable landing station in

Teraco out to beat Eskom price hikes

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Independent data centre operator Teraco is expanding its facilities in Johannesburg and Cape Town and building a new centre in Durban as demand in the SA market explodes. But it’s having to focus enormous energy on increasing power efficiencies

Teraco raises R158m for data centre expansion

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Data centre operator Teraco Data Environments has secured a further R158m in funding. The financing includes both equity and debt, with the World Bank’s International Finance Corp and the Development Bank of Southern Africa

Lessons from SA’s data centre boom

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Despite the tough economy, at least one area of business is booming. Data centres, some of them vast structures costing hundreds of millions of rand each, are popping up across the countryside. We have the free market to thank

TalkCentral: Episode 16 – ‘Taxed’

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Episode 16 of TechCentral’s business technology podcast TalkCentral is ready for streaming or downloading. In the latest episode, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Candice Jones reflect on Cell C’s mobile broadband launch in Gauteng and the new data tariffs on offer.

R300m for new Teraco data centres

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Data centre specialist Teraco Data Environments intends to invest nearly R300m in new data centres in the next 24 months on the back of escalating demand for cloud computing services. It is also looking to build data centres