Playtopia 2024 Event WiFi Case Study Cape Town’s premier indie gaming and immersive arts festival. Background Founded in 2018, Playtopia is Africa’s first annual destination Indie Games & Immersive Arts festival and conference. The event is organised and run by the team at Free Lives, an indie game dev studio based in Cape Town. The Playtopia event was held in
“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, but we now operate a fully open source network that can scale to billions of packets per second. Atomic built a 100Gbps IP network running Debian and drivers in the Linux kernel. About 10 years
TL;DR… From 1 February 2025 🐸 Frogfoot’s fibre pricing and interconnect fees are changing – that means our packages will be changing too. The price changes on 1 February 2025 is 1 year after Frogfoot’s last price changes. Please note: Frogfoot’s standard speed profiles are not available in the Century City Precinct or 3rd party suppliers. Details of the changes
TL;DR… From 1 May 2024 🐰 Vumatel will be changing their line pricing and interconnect fees – that means our home fibre pricing for Vumatel services will be changing too. Details of the changes can be seen in the table below. Changes To Vumatel Home Fibre Services The old price is the price that will be charged prior to 1
TL;DR… From 1 April our home fibre services over the 🦎 Openserve fibre network will cost a little bit more. There are no speed changes as all home fibre services on Openserve received a free speed upgrade 1 November 2023. Details of the changes can be seen in the table below. Changes To Line Speeds 🚀 The old price is
TL;DR… From 1 March 2024 🐙 Octotel will be changing their line speeds and pricing – that means our packages and pricing will be changing too. Now into the details. Octotel has given all ISPs notice that they are changing their fibre service offering from 1 March 2024, which affects the speeds and prices we can provide. They have announced
TL;DR… From 1 February 2024 🐸 Frogfoot will be changing their line speeds, pricing and interconnect fees – that means our packages and pricing will be changing too. Please note: New speed profiles are not available in the Century City Precinct or 3rd party suppliers. Frogfoot have given all ISPs notice that they are changing their fibre service offering from 1
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 points to fibre networks with latency as low as 300 nanoseconds using fully Open Source software. “We see 50% less latency for packets crossing the Cape Town peering points with 80% less jitter,” says Joe
Atomic’s first customers went live on the Openserve fibre network this week and we have IPv6 working! About Openserve Yes, Telkom is not the company with the best reputation. When we started Atomic we wanted to only offer services on independent Open Access fibre networks and we did not want to deal with legacy PPPoE/Radius systems. We ideally also wanted to offer
Octotel fibre, 2x the speed and 43% better value! 🚀 We are excited to announce that Octotel’s Double-Up promotion will soon become a permanent feature. While we have been offering the double-up speeds at no extra charge during the promotion, Octotel will be adjusting their line fees on 1 April 2023. Therefore, we will need to adjust our Octotel packages
