Take your online experience to the next level with Fibre

North Coast residents can breathe a sigh of relief – no more slow internet connection, no more icons of egg-timers rotating on the screen while something downloads and no more lost connection in the middle of a message or call.

Fibre to the Home (FTTH) is a super speedy, uninterrupted and cost effective internet connectivity and it is finally available in the greater Ballito area with a BANG!

To bring FTTH to a user’s home takes a partnership between three different companies: 

• The first company lays the actual physical “fibre” under the ground.
• The second company provides the “bridge” (light) across the fibre between the ISP (internet service provider) and the end user.
• The third company delivers the internet service (voice, video and data) into packages to the end users. These layer three partners are the ISPs.

In Ballito, MITSOL (who “lights up” the existing fibre infrastructure with a communication service) has partnered with a variety of well-known ISPs.

This “open access” model is beneficial for consumers, as they are able to choose a data package that suits them from one of the ISPs, all of whom offer different incentives to sign up with them.

This creates a self-regulated platform on price and service, to ensure the ISPs continue to offer attractive deals

Mitsol directors Maurice de Marigny, Andrew Boyd and Warren Bricknell believe that Fibre to the Home (FTTH) is a powerful tool that boosts home and business efficiency through excellent connectivity, which is cheaper, more efficient and more earth-friendly than earlier telecommunications options.“Fibre optic technology is cheaper for cable operators to lay and maintain, more resilient to the elements and has no “resale” value, which makes it fairly unattractive to the second-hand market, unlike copper wire,” said MITSOL director Warren Bricknell.

“Fibre optic cable is relatively “future proof” and currently has the capacity to meet any current and future demands, therefore the layer one part of FTTH (the physical fibre) will require no further upgrades in the near future.”

A number of North Coast estates have already signed up for FTTH with MITSOL’s partner ISPs.

Dunkirk Estate general manager Robin Streit, is enthusiastic about their FTTH. All homes in Dunkirk have now been passed, and over 100 homes are already connected.

“It was quick and easy with minimal interruption for the estate. To be ready to roll in a short space of time, including the festive season break, is impressive,” said Streit.

‘MITSOL lit up the fibre once the cabling was in and provides our internet connectivity. And now, all the residents have to do is choose one of the different data packages that suits their needs. The variety of choice on the data packages certainly gives the market a bit of a competitive edge, which ultimately benefits our residents.’

 The power of fibre

Bricknell, who has been energetically driving the FTTH initiative throughout KZN for the past year, is convinced that FTTH will revolutionise the way homes and businesses operate in the future.

With the FTTH options of high-speed data transmission, the world is our oyster in terms of communications and what we can achieve.

A two hour movie can be downloaded much faster, depending on the speed for which you have signed up: 10mbps – it will take about 21 minutes, with 20mbps – it will take about 11 minutes. At a speed of 50 mbps – the download time drops to around four minutes, while at a speed of 100mbps it will take a mere two minutes to download a two hour movie.

“Upload speeds are equally fast – just think what this could do for your business when using Cloud-based services, or storing your personal data such as precious photographs and movies in the safety of the Cloud.

“Furthermore, according to the Fibre to the Home Council – an international body that regulates FTTH systems around the world – an added bonus of having a fibre to the home service installed is that it boosts the capital value of a home by up to five per cent.”

For more information, contact MITSOL on (031) 566-2451, email info@mitsol.net or visit www.ftth.mitsol.co.za.

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