Q-KON beams up the best of broadband for continent

Management at Q-KON, a South Africa-based provider of turnkey solutions covering specialist areas of telecommunications and ICT, has announced the launch of the company’s flagship VSAT service, called iDirect Evolution IBS (Internet Broadband Service), delivered via satellite to the benefit of a growing client base across Africa.
 

 
The IBS service is now available on C-Band beams via Intelsat IS905 satellite and is aimed at the corporate and Soho market, as well as ISPs and government bodies. It offers quality Internet-based services that may be used for broadband Internet, Voice and data.
 
In addition to the fact that the service is managed from the Q-KON Network Operations Centre in South Africa, it is hosted at the Mountainside Teleport in Washington. This means that the DVB-S2 iDirect hub is interconnected to the United States Internet backbone and offers fast Internet connectivity.
 
As a result, investors operating within key regions throughout Africa - including the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria, can now benefit from ‘always-on’ broadband satellite Internet.
 
The satellite IBS access service is a point-to-multipoint access service that provides a dedicated two-way communication circuit from an on-premise earth station at the customer site to the International Teleport facility in the US.
 
Interconnection from the remote site to the international teleport is via Intelsat IS905 satellite. From the teleport the access circuit is connected to the global Internet cloud via redundant STM-1 connections.
 
From a technical infrastructure point of view, the service is based on proven, advanced network product says Dawie de Wet, CEO, Q-KON.