The City of Joburg Broadband Project will go live on 1 July 2013 after a 3 year build phase.
The completion of the fibre optic network covers all 7 regions of the City of Johannesburg (CoJ) municipality and will deliver a live network that will offer key services to all municipal buildings connected to the network.
This fibre optic network, that will be operated by BWired for 12 years, was designed by Ericsson South Africa and uses world class leading technologies utilized in Smart Cities around the world. It marks one of the biggest rollouts of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere in terms of its 1.2Tb core capacity and 940km coverage.
The Johannesburg Broadband and Network Project (JBNP) is the realisation of the city‘s long term vision of developing the city‘s economy which will see the positive stimulation of opportunities for the business sector in terms of small to medium enterprises, effective access to public services, the development of the youth in Johannesburg and increased employment opportunities for all.
When the Network goes live on the 1st July 2013 it will offer full WAN accessibility and VPN services.
“œThe principle behind this network was to provide ICT communications at a vastly lower cost, not only reducing the CoJ‘s communications costs, but enabling the rest of the residents of the city to benefit from the network roll out,“ said BWired CEO, Musa Nkosi.
The CoJ will only use a small percentage of the projected network capacity so other telecoms service providers, and the industry at large can plug into the remaining capacity on a wholesale and open access basis.
