South Africa

South Africa

Purchasing Backhaul

Summary of who owns the physical high-speed networks that form the backbone of the country’s internet, along with how those networks interconnect internationally.

Fibre networks and fibre network operators

Commercial, NREN, Government, etc

  • Balwin Fibre
  • Broadband Infraco 14,863km
  • Celerity Networks
  • Century City
  • Connect Clear Access
  • Connectivity Services Fibre
  • Cybersmart
  • DNATel
  • Dark Fibre Africa 14,000km
  • Evotel
  • FibreSuburb Networks
  • FibreNet
  • Frogfoot
  • Garden Route Fibre Network
  • Herotel
  • Lightstruck
  • Link Africa
  • Link Layer
  • Linteng
  • Liquid Telecom 21,000km
  • MTN 23,000km
  • Mesh Telecom
  • MetroFibre Networx 2,700km
  • Mitsol
  • Munyaka Lifestyle Estate Fibre
  • Netstream
  • Octotel
  • Open Fibre
  • Openserve 165,900km
  • Polo fields Estates
  • Purple Forest Fibre
  • Rise Telecoms
  • Route Networks Fibre
  • Seacom FibreCo 4,000km
  • TT Connect
  • Teralink networks
  • Vodacom 33,000km
  • Vumatel 18,000km
  • Waterfall Access Networks
  • Zoom Fibre

Sources for fibre distances

Broadband Infraco Dark Fibre Africa Liquid Telecom National Longdistance Network Seacom / FibreCo Telkom / Openserve

National Research and Education Network

South Africa's NREN is divided between two organisations: TENET and SANREN. TENET is the operational arm of the NREN owned by the universities themselves and SANREN is the government side of the NREN providing infrastructure funding and other services.

Satellite operators

Summary of satellite services available in the country

Terrestrial service providers

Terms of Service ISPs offering backhaul services List of ISPs offering backhaul services to small operators including: Contact details License type Services offered (where available) Geographic scope of services Pricing?

Building Backhaul

Suppliers
Fibre
Wireless
  • Scoop - Ubiquiti, Mikrotik, Cambium, Mimosa, Radwin
  • Miro - Ubiquiti, Mikrotik, Cambium
  • tech.co.za - Ubiquiti, Mikrotik, Cambium
Other

Costs

Where available, typical construction costs

Regulatory Issues

Licensing
Rights of Way
Other considerations

Mapping Backhaul

Maps of network infrastructure nationally Combined map of fibre networks, IXPs, CDNs, et al Open data GIS downloadable version. IXPs, CDNs, and Datacentres Locations of IXPs, CDNs, and datacentres in the country Contact details

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