Competition should force costs down, which in turn will spur growth. Bandwidth is critical to Internet performance. IS continually grows its national and international bandwidth capacity. In 1999, it was the first company to install a single 45Mbps channel of inbound bandwidth to South Africa. At that time, this represented more than a third of all inbound bandwidth.
Today IS is the South African market leader in a number of value-added segments.
In the hosting and application service provision arena, the building blocks are web, security, commerce and application hosting. In the security arena, firewalls, authentication and encryption are cornerstones. In the Extranet and Intranet arena, the foundations are Internet-based virtual private networks, corporate dialup and corporate remote access. IS also offers building blocks customtailored to meet the needs of Internet, application and commerce service providers. We are positioning ourselves to provide the access, services and expertise that will help South African companies do well in the global economy.