Service Activation of SANReN Cape Town
Metropolitan Fibre Rings nearing completion

The SANReN metropolitan fibre deployment in Cape Town consists of five rings interconnecting almost forty sites. TENET engineers have worked hard since mid October to activate services on these sites. Most sites are now connected and services to these sites have been stable.

The Cape Town Fibre Optic ring deployment marks the end of SANReN's metro ring deployment stage. TENET congratulates the Meraka Institute on the successful completion of this phase of the SANReN project.

The Network

The network operated by TENET includes a 10 Gbps circuit to London on the SEACOM cable system, redundant backhaul circuits from the SEACOM landing station in Mtunzini, the SANReN 10 Gbps backbone, SANReN fibre rings in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban, the GEN3 MPLS network and Metro-E circuits provided by Neotel, IP Connect bandwidth into the ADSL cloud, and various optical fibre and wireless access circuits. TENET operates transit and peering links in Cape Town, Johannesburg, London and Amsterdam, including a connection to the European research and education network, GÉANT. TENET also operates UbuntuNet gateways in Mtunzini, London and Amsterdam under contract to the UbuntuNet Alliance.

Acceptable Use Policy

TENET's Acceptable Use Policy is available for download here.

ISPA Membership

TENET is an honorary member of the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) and upholds ISPA's Code of Conduct. TENET has nominated ISPA as its agent for the purpose of receiving take-down notifications in terms of Section 75 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act.

Please click here to visit the ISPA website.