Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 13 | Page 59

CASE STUDY LASERNET’S WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE WAS USED INSTEAD TO CO-ORDINATE THE ACTIVITIES OF ALL THE EMERGENCY ORGANISATIONS WORKING IN THE AREA. KNYSNA WAS DEVASTATED BY A RUNAWAY FIRE THAT BURNT FOR WEEKS. fibre damage. The telephone infrastructure was severely impacted and the municipality and emergency services would have had to rely solely on two-way radio as the communication medium. Why is it important for your company to use multiple high sites? www.intelligentcio.com To ensure greater coverage for market penetration and client connectivity as well as providing alternate redundant routes and core routing strategies for traffic balancing across multiple triangulated routes. What are the major benefits of using InfiNet’s solutions to operate your entire video delivery system? The Infinet product provides a high- speed superior wireless solution that can be deployed within a couple of hours for clients to have instant connectivity for their business requirements. Infinet’s technology allows our media clients to have consistent high-speed throughput in order to move content ranging in size from gigabytes to terabytes across the world. Our media clients generally have an Infinet wireless connection as their primary connectivity medium or as a fail-over in the event that their primary fibre connectivity fails. Our clients opt for business continuity ensuring availability of service resulting in revenue growth. Why did you choose to partner with InfiNet? The product underwent extensive testing within our data intensive environment. Uptime, speed and ease of configuration were critical evaluation points. The product met all our evaluation criteria and once implemented in our network assisted in the growth of our business clients and revenue. Our sales team finally had confidence in a wireless product to propose to clients for their high-speed data requirements. n INTELLIGENTCIO 59