eNetworks polishes ArcelorMittal South Africa’s Saldanha Works enterprise network

28 April 2010 – eNetworks, the enterprise network services provider, has vastly improved the performance of local area network (LAN) for Saldanha Works, one of the plants of leading steel company, ArcelorMittal South Africa.

eNetworks diagnosed and optimised the company’s existing LAN topology in order to increase performance and uptime. The LAN is used for both the network monitoring system of the steel plant as well as general administration functions. Poor LAN performance and downtime can mean a direct cost to the company from a production point of view and by preventing staff working at maximum capacity, along with the associated frustration of a slow system.

What does uncapped broadband mean for the consumer?

By Jonathan Maliepaard, MD eNetworks

What does uncapped ADSL mean to the consumer right now, well it depends. The recent exuberance expressed by so many might be short lived when they realise that they might not be getting the same performance that they had before. Why you might ask? It is simple mathematics. Infrastructure and bandwidth cost lots of money and the only way to make an uncapped service sustainable is to make lots of clients share the same bandwidth. ISPs have been doing this for years, but it was easier to do when you were being paid for what you used. Now the playing field has changed and massive oversubscription ratios and caching will be the only way to survive.

Downside of Uncapped

According to Jonathan Maliepaard, the managing director of eNetworks, the South African enterprise networks services provider and ISP, the recent exuberance expressed about the uncapped rate might be short lived when they realise that they might not be getting the same performance that they had before.
"It is simple mathematics-infrastructure and bandwidth cost a lot and the only way to make an uncapped service sustainable is to make lots of clients share the same bandwidth.