Data Solutions

If yours is a multi-branch, mid-range or corporate business, you are undoubtedly in the market for iConnect’s two new Business Data Services:

• Point-to-point Virtual Private Network (VPN) for sensitive data

• Internet access with e-mail.

We’re keeping South Africa in the forefront of this type of business innovation, and that’s what has made iConnect the leading Telco service provider for these markets

Through iConnect’s VPN service you can now enjoy point-topoint data connectivity that links all your branches across a stable, fast and secure private network.

The service, which is over a dedicated link determined by your bandwidth requirements, is provided at a fixed cost. That means that your data costs are now fixed and predictable while usage is unlimited.

Through the use of a number of connectivity options, the VPN system can be tailored to suit your business needs precisely. Furthermore, it is secure, managed, and for your total convenience can be provided under iConnect’s umbrella of services. The result: you receive just one bill and have only one provider for all your business communication services. And you can rest easy, knowing that your confidential information will remain just that – confidential.

The plethora of internet data packages can be confusing – capped, uncapped, soft capped; shaped, unshaped; bursting, no bursting. A business organisation like yours may therefore have more than one Internet Service Provider (ISP) throughout its branches and various departments. And that’s costly and inefficient.

What’s more, all their offerings are contended services, which means the more users accessing the Internet via a particular ISPs, the slower the access speed. That’s because users access the Internet via the ISP’s cloud, which is where congestion takes place – sometimes with contention ratios as high as 1:120. A hundred and twenty users vying for the bandwidth allocated to one user!

That’s where iConnect’s Internet access is different. You’ll connect direct to an Internet backbone, without going through a cloud. We therefore guarantee a contention ratio of 1:1. The benefit? Your access speed is always fast and constant since you will not be sharing your bandwidth with other users.

One of the major advantages of this fully-managed service is that we monitor and manage your connectivity link, whether it’s ADSL or iBurst, so you don’t have to spend countless hours waiting to talk to someone in a large call centre, and then several weeks for your line to be fixed.

If your modem is faulty we will service it for you. And if you approach your bandwidth cap we will notify you and simply add the additional usage to your bill. At all times you can monitor your usage via our web portal in exactly the same way you have become accustomed to monitoring voice usage via our TMS.

• Guaranteed 1:1 contention ratio over ADSL and iBurst connections so your access will not degrade as it does through typical service providers.

• A single bill from a single provider covers an integrated and managed service that includes voice, internet and data.

• Because these services are bundled onto a single link, our data services are more cost effective.

• Unlike other Diginet services, which are typically provided on a distance-based model, the iConnect Diginet model rate is standard, regardless of your location or distance from the Internet server