{"id":69782,"date":"2016-10-05T20:10:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T12:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/south-sudanese-o3b-customer-doubles-capacity\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T20:10:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T12:10:39","slug":"south-sudanese-o3b-customer-doubles-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/south-sudanese-o3b-customer-doubles-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudanese O3b Customer Doubles Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 10-05-2016] <strong>O3b Networks&nbsp;<\/strong>customer <strong>RCS Communication<\/strong>, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) in South Sudan, has signed a new agreement to receive more than double its current bandwidth capacity over the next two years. The ISP has also decided to become the first customer to implement O3bPerformance Services&nbsp;site \u201cDiversity\u201d solution.<\/p>\n<p>RCS became one of O3b\u2019s first clients by signing a long-term contract in 2013, prior to the launch of O3b\u2019s first satellites, and became the second African business to use the O3bTrunk&nbsp;product following commercialization of the service in October 2014.<\/p>\n<p>RCS uses O3bTrunk&nbsp;to connect WiMAX and high throughput Point to Multipoint (PtMP) networks in the capital, Juba, to the internet. Despite the country\u2019s current challenging times, RCS has nearly exhausted its contracted capacity as demand for bandwidth continues to increase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe timing may seem unexpected for us to upgrade capacity and invest in O3b\u2019s diversity solution, as most players in the South Sudan telco\/ISP sector are currently scaling down due to economic and other challenges,\u201d said Flippie Odendal, managing director, RCS. \u201cWhile RCS is not isolated from these issues and their impact, our investment decision was taken with a long term view, though it will have immediate benefits to our clients once deployed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O3b\u2019s Diversity solution leverages the operator\u2019s Software Defined Networking (SDN) platform for intelligent switching across multiple satellite links. The solution uses ground terminals placed in multiple locations to boost network reliability and resiliency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 10-05-2016] O3b Networks&nbsp;customer RCS Communication, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) in South Sudan, has signed a new agreement to receive more than double its current bandwidth capacity over the next two years. The ISP has also decided to become the first customer to implement O3bPerformance Services&nbsp;site \u201cDiversity\u201d solution. RCS became one of O3b\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}