Warwick Ward-Cox, chief technical officer at Community Platforms – a wholesale supplier specialising in supporting web service suppliers and IT managed service suppliers – is deeply immersed within the plumbing of the South African know-how house, at present supporting over a 100 ISPs and MSPs.
Ward-Cox, who has immersed himself on the planet of know-how for the previous 30 years, is the visitor on this episode of TechCentral’s TCS+ enterprise know-how present, wherein he chats concerning the work that Community Platforms does and the way the web panorama in South Africa has been reworked over the previous 10 years.
On this episode, he discusses:
- Community Platforms, what it does and the way and why it’s focus has shifted over time;
- What web infrastructure in South Africa seems to be like in 2024, together with nationwide long-distance fibre and subsea cables;
- Why some terrestrial fibre routes in South Africa are “difficult”, and why submarine cables alongside the shoreline alleviate the issue;
- Why IP transit to ISPs is a important service;
- Web peering in South Africa, the way it works and why it’s essential;
- The outlook for peering; and
- Why ISPs and managed service suppliers ought to select Community Platforms
This can be a nice dialog concerning the growth and state of the web in South Africa, what it seems to be like and the place it might be going. Don’t miss it!
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