We’ve launched XGS-PON!

18 December 2025

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… The year is 2002 – a period of digital darkness. The Empire introduces 512Kbps ADSL,

PPPoE Must Die – 80s tech holding back fibre speeds

13 October 2025

Update 12 December 2025: Octotel recently launched XGS-PON FTTH services with 2.5Gbps+ speeds. PPP is clearly not well-suited for the XGS-PON use case. Here is

Purist Open Networking at ASIC Speeds

12 January 2025

“ASICs, magic and pro-wrestling are closely guarded secrets.” Not so long ago you could not dream of running open source software on a 100Gbps router,

Atomic’s Open Networking Strategy Delivers Content in 300ns

9 July 2023

Atomic Access builds fully Open Network with NVIDIA Spectrum ASICs Cape-based ISP Atomic Access now consistently routes content from the NAPAfrica and CINX internet exchange

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