About Neotel
Contents
- Introduction to Neotel - About Neotel - Our Vision - Our Mission
- Our solutions - Consolidated solution overview - NeoVoice - NeoBroadband - NeoInternet - Data - Security - Hosting
Introduction to Neotel
Our Vision
To be the partner of choice enabling a new world of communications and services, delivering excellence and creating value for our customers, employees and partners.
Our Mission
Leveraging our global reach, people and partnerships, we deliver superior communications
and managed services through continuous innovation, reliable world-class technology
and exceptional customer service.
Neotel is South Africa’s first converged communications network operator, offering services that bring together voice, data
and Internet, delivered via optical fibre or wireless access. Our services are delivered via our own independent national
network.
Neotel provides a range of value-added services for business, wholesale network operators, network providers and
consumers. From a basic telephone handset at home to the data centres that have become the epicentres of local and
international business – Neotel is an innovative disrupter in the South African telecommunications space.
This innovation is at the heart of Neotel. Since launching in August 2006, Neotel has delivered:
• ThefirstTier1IPTransitserviceinSouthAfrica
• ThefirstcarriervoiceoverIPservice
• Thefirstwirelesshomephone
• Thefirstpublictelepresenceservice-combininghighdefinitionvideoandspatialaudiowithadvancedtechnologies
enabling multiple participants to hold global meetings as if in the same room
• Thefirstconvergedaccessserviceonfibre;and
• ThefirstfibrebroadbandserviceinSouthAfrica-deliveringanunparalleledInternetexperiencetobusinesseswith
speedsofupto15Mbps.UnlikeheavilycontendedADSLservices,NeoBroadbandoffersafastandefficientInternet
service with very little contention.
About Neotel
Neotel products and services
Our Offerings
Neotel Business offerings
Today’s business world is fluid, dynamic and fast-paced. To be successful you need communications solutions that not only give you the competitive edge, but have the flexibility and scalability to meet your changing business requirements as you expand. Neotel understands this.
That’s why our team has developed an extensive value-added range of communications solutions, using next generation state-of-the-art technology.
Ourinnovativevoiceanddataservicesutiliseourpure-IPNextGenerationNetwork,poweredbyNeotel’shigh-performancefibre optic backbone. Not only are we South Africa’s first converged communications network operator, but we’re the only South African network with a truly global reach, through our shareholder relationship with Tata Communications.
We connect the major centres in South Africa to each other and to the world, directly linking the country into Tata’s global Tier 1network.Ourcontinuallyexpandingrangeofbusinessservicesaregearedtomakingyourbusinessmoreefficient–whilereducing the cost of doing business.
Some of our business solutions and services is outlined below
Neotel’s Voice Solutions
Neotel offers flexible voice service solutions to match your company’s needs and budget. Our voice services, deployed over our fully redundant fibre network, will ensure your business stays connected. Neotel Voice
Service includes products with single line as well as multi-line offerings and call rates that could save youupto35%.
NeoVoice
NeoVoiceisamulti-linevoicesolutionthatcombinesconventionaltelephonywithintelligentNextGenerationvoicetechnology.ThroughourGeographicNumberPortability(GNP)service,youcanmovetoourlandlineoffering
without changing your number and incurring unnecessary expense.
Neotel’s Internet Services
NeotelistheonlyTier1operatorinSouthAfricawithglobalreach,throughourmajorityshareholderTataCommunications–bringing the Internet to South Africa. Our Internet suite of services provides businesses with varying connection types. This ranges from broadband Internet access to dedicated Internet access and includes numerous international versus domestic bandwidth allocation ratios.
NeoInternet
IfyourInternettrafficvolumeisunpredictable,oursuiteofInternetservicesissuitableforyouasthereisnoratelimitorbandwidthcapping.Thebandwidthisguaranteedforinternationaltrafficuptoportspeed,dependingonnetworkavailability.OurInternetservicesguaranteeahighrateofreliability,efficiencyandsecurity.
NeoBroadband WiMAX
NeoBroadband WiMAX is an affordable uncapped internet access delivered over Neotel’s established WiMAX infrastructure. The service gives your business cost effective, convenient and fast internet connection. It’s a flexible scalable solution that can be upgraded or downgraded depending on your changing business requirements. Our
rapid turnaround time for installation means you can be up and running quickly.
NeoBroadband Fibre
NeoBroadband Fibre, delivered over Neotel’s tried and tested fibre infrastructure, is a flexible, scalable solution that gives you a reliable, convenient and fast internet connection. As there are no fixed lines, should you need to relocate premises,yourconnectiongoeswithyou–andwithinashorttime,theinstallationiscompletedatyournewoffices(coveragedependent).Forbusinesseslookingforastable,highlyreliableinternetaccessservice,NeoBroadbandisthe right option.
Neotel’s Security Services
NeoSecure - Unified Threat Management
NeotelUnifiedThreatManagement(UTM)isacomprehensivesecuritysolutionthatallowsforadvancedthreatmanagement.UTMprovidesanall-in-onecoverageforcommonsecurityneedsincludingfirewall,intrusiondetection/
prevention system, anti-spam and web filtering capabilities.
MailGuard&MailArchiving
MailGuardandMailArchiving are our comprehensive email management solutions that address email related securitythreats,suchasviruses,SPAMandconfidentialitybreaches.BothproductscomplementNeoInternetbyaddressingsecurityconcernsandenablingaholisticInternetoffering.MailGuardoffersemailanti-spam,anti-virus
and content filtering of all emails, while Mail Archiving is an email archiving service that helps satisfy email policy and
regulatory compliance needs.
Neotel’s Data Services
Our data suite of services includes products that provide businesses with varying types of point-to-point or point-to-multipointdataconnectivity.OurprivatelymanagedlocalandglobalIPnetworkallowsustoofferclientsMPLSVPN
types of service with varying class of service options.
NeoOne
NeoOne offers you access to high-speed bandwidth as well as the ability to benefit from true converged voice and data services right to your doorstep. A single fibre optic installation and your business will benefit from a range of services without the necessity to invest in multiple installations that are both costly and disruptive to
your business. You can get all of this at a flat monthly fee.
Neotel’s Hosting Services
To assist you to maximise your technology budget and benefit from our considerable technology expertise and
infrastructure investment, Neotel offers a suite of cost-effective hosting services.
NeoHost: Colocation
Our colocation services provide state-of-the-art facilities that enable a robust, flexible and scalable environment foryourITinfrastructureneeds.Ourworldwidefootprintof12facilitiesprovidesallthenecessaryspace,
security, power and connectivity options your business could need.
NeoHost: Managed Hosting Services
This suite of value-added services, including managed storage, managed backup and virtual firewall, complements our premium data centre services. Through these comprehensive services, you have access to and use of our world-class storage and network infrastructure, fully managed and supported by skilled staff. Our Managed Hosting Services allow for easy expansion and upgrading of services.
NeoHost: Virtual Host
Our highly secure Virtual Host service enables businesses to consolidate and continuously optimise infrastructure and application services in virtualised environments, reducing capital expenditure while improving business agility. As Neotel provides an end-to-end managed solution offering, the risk of vendor complexity is reduced while the ability of businesses to seamlessly expand networks is enhanced.