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Liquid Telecom Building Largest Fibre Network in Southern Africa

10th November, 2011

Fibre network in Zambia now live and providing unlimited broadband capacity and reducing prices 9 November 2011 – CEC Liquid Telecom today announced that phase one of its countrywide fibre network in Zambia is now live and providing much-needed broadband …
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CEC and Liquid Telecom launch wholesale operator in Zambia

21st September, 2011

The Copperbelt Energy Corporation Plc (CEC) and Liquid Telecommunications Holding Limited (Liquid Telecom) today announced the creation of CEC Liquid Telecommunications Limited which will increase broadband capacity into and within Zambia, increase competition and ultimately reduce end-user prices.
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Satellite

Liquid Telecom provides a Broadband over satellite IP solution that delivers the speed, flexibility, reliability, optimization, and simplicity that enterprises and individuals demand. Network bandwidth is dynamically allocated among all locations, maximizing usage and reducing underutilized capacity. Resellers only need to manage one universal technology, one vendor and one billing system.

BENEFITS

Developed specifically to meet the communication needs of corporate and end customers, Liquid Telecom’s Broadband over satellite packages breaks the constraints of traditional landlines. We deliver the speed, performance and flexibility to fullfill the most demanding requirements of today’s end users and corporate — anywhere.

SUPPORT SYSTEM

Liquid Telecom monitor all the remote units from a central portal, with the visibility to see where bandwidth is being over- or underutilized and allowing 24 hour support.

INCREASED BANDWIDTH EFFICIENCY

Support more applications and carry more traffic over your available bandwidth with the aid of inbuilt TCP acceleration into every modem. This feature ensures that the TCP transfer rate is always kept at its maximum buy spoofing acknowledgements and negotiating the window size from the local interface rather than the remote peer.

SECURITY

The Liquid Telecom solution enables the deployment of government or corporate approved VPN solutions over satellite networks without loss of either TCP performance or support for real-time applications such as Pastel and SAP. Unlike other providers Broadband over satellite Liquid Telecoms solution has no restrictions on either site-to-site VPN via IPSec or user to server VPN via PPTP.

ON SITE SUPPORT

Liquid Telecom is supported by installation and maintenance teams around the world.

FEATURES

Rapid Installation
Optimized services (Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation and inbuilt TCP acceleration)
High speed connection upgrades
High Bandwidth – up to 20Mbps downlink using standard equipment
Full QoS/prioritization
Seamless integration with existing/planned IT infrastructure

HARDWARE

1.2m Antenna with non-penetrating mounting and weighting ballast
High performance LNB
3W Block upconverter
30m Tx and Rx IF cabling and connectors
Linkstar satellite modem (RCST)
TCP/HTTP acceleration and compression
MPLS support
Adaptive Coding & Modulation – avoid downtime due to rain
Voice prioritization standard

TECHNICAL SPECS

Liquid Telecom’s Broadband over satellite solution is based on the industry leading Viasat Linkstar satellite Hub architecture. We maintain capacity on Intelesat W2A to ensure coverage over Southern Africa. Our satellite Hub is based in the United Kingdom with a guaranteed 99.5% uptime and Internet peering with a vast range of Tier1 internet service providers.