BOFINET boosts capacity

Wholesale connectivity provider Botswana Fibre Networks (BoFiNet), which operates Botswana’s largest fibre network, is boosting its offering with solutions from DZS.

DZS is a supplier of access, optical and AI-driven cloud software solutions. The firm is providing BoFiNet with its Velocity Fibre-To-The-Business (FTTB) systems and DZS Helix premises solutions, which will help the fibre operator provide multi-gigabit digital services to licensed communications service providers, governmental bodies and other institutions.

“We needed proven, reliable, cost-effective fibre technology that would allow us to easily scale and rapidly deploy the nextgeneration communications services our customers and their end-users are demanding,” said Keabetswe Segole, Chief Executive Officer at BoFiNet. “DZS fulfilled all of these requirements in addition to offering an outstanding professional services team to help implement this important initiative. ”As part of the project, BoFiNet is deploying DZS solutions, leveraging 10-Gigabit symmetrical passive optical networking (XGS-PON) technology to enable fibre connected businesses and anchor institutions in the cities of Mahalapye, Kanye, Tlokweng and Molepolole. This state-of-the-art network enables BoFiNet to expand its existing communications infrastructure, allowing for the seamless integration of next-generation data, voice and video services, and positions the company to be the primary source of ultra-highspeed internet bandwidth for corporate, government bodies, institutional anchors, retail users and individual business customers throughout the region.