VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) and VPN Solution – for Corporate and Multinationals with high volume usage on International and National calls.

PROMINENT ISP’S IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DIAL THRU INTERNATIONAL (Rapid Link)

Soon after the announcement of the Minister of Telecommunications that VANS may carry voice over the internet from 1 Feb 2005, a partnership was formed between Dial Thru International and prominent First Tier Internet Service Providrs to work together on providing VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) solutions for corporate customers. By capitalizing upon the benefits derived from the new legislation – Rapid Link’s experience with VoIP will place it in the lead within the South African Telecommunications industry.

By creating VPN’s with two ISP’s, both with an excellent ISP backbone in South Africa, and both being ahead in the market working with data, Rapid Link offer’s it’s VPN customers added value by not keeping all their eggs in one basket. By combining forces in the new VoIP market, each stakeholder will be able to focus on its own area of expertise, with the sum total of the combined efforts being the best VoIP solution to Rapid Link’s prospective VoIP and VPN customers.

 

Find below a diagram of Rapid Link’s WAN, satellite and fibre setup.

Rapid Link offers an extensive national Multi Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) infrastructure, a network based VPN, to provide the highest possible network performance at the most effective cost. Both ISP’s, as first tier Network Solution Providers, offer a wide range of network solutions including;

• Any-to-Any Extranet Connectivity.
• QoS (Quality of Service),
• End-to-End Service Level Agreements (SLA),
• Security Solutions,

By replacing expensive private network bandwidth that often remains under-utilised with managed VPN bandwidth a company lowers the total cost of ownership and simplifies communication.
Rapid Link is proposing a solution for the provision of an economical, robust and highly reliable
national infrastructure for the transport of WAN voice & data traffic.

Sample VPN – Manufacturing Company’s Network
Supported by Rapid Link & FIRST TIER ISP

In the above diagram the client has a 5 site VPN with the following capacity configuration:

• 128kbps - Head Office in Pretoria;
• 64kbps - Factory in Johannesburg;
• 64kbps -Warehouse in Cape Town;
• 64kbps - Warehouse in Durban;
• 64kbps - Shipping company in East London;

In addition it includes; 256kbps of Local and 64kbps of International Internet Access, a Cisco PIX Firewall, a remote dial-up home office user, 30 roaming GPRS based mobile users, and a hosted Server at the First Tier ISP’s Data Centre.

In Conclusion:

Rapid Link’s approach to the new playing field that VoIP challenges will offer in South Africa will be to allow it’s VoIP Specialists to work closely with each prospective customer, allowing them to assess what each customer’s unique set-up is, and then customizing the VoIP solution accordingly, ultimately offering the most cost effective solution – not only on the ultimate call costs – but also on the initial set up costs.