Virtual Private Network Services

Telkom is providing the telecommunications infrastructure to all Independent Electoral Commission-controlled election-related points of presence for the municipal elections on 18 May.

“The elections do not happen only on election day. We have partnered the Electoral Commission in the registration process and the compilation of the voters' roll, which started some time ago, and we continue providing communication services until long afterwards election day is over,” says Godfrey Ntoele, Telkom's managing executive for large and government business services.

The solution requires access for the IEC's wide area network through Telkom's Virtual Private Network Services platform.

The applicable PRC via VSAT innovation

It adds that 20 MEOs are connected to the applicable PRC via VSAT innovation and 330 MEOs are connected via Telkom's VPNS platform. These sites have been updated to a minimum speed of 1Mbps.

Twenty-four primary rate interfaces provide voice services for the PRCs and each PRC has been supplied with a PABX Business System.

The temporary Tshwane site

For the temporary Tshwane site, all telecommunications facilities are connected to the NRC via a Telkom Mobile Exchange, which is situated at the show grounds.

The mobile facility offers a redundant fibre-optic connection to two different Telkom exchanges. Each fibre connection has bandwidth capacity of 2.5Gbps connecting to Telkom's core network.