Try our New AI Assistant!
TL;DR… From 1 April 2025 🦎 Openserve’s home and business fibre pricing are changing – that means our packages will be changing too. The price change on 1 April 2025 is 1 year after Openserve’s last price change. Details of the changes to Openserve Home Fibre pricing can be seen in the table below. Openserve Home Fibre Package Old Price
TL;DR… From 1 April 2025 🐰 Vumatel’s home fibre pricing is changing – that means our packages will be changing too. The price change on 1 April 2025 is 11 months after Vumatel’s last price change. Details of the changes can be seen in the table below. Notable changes 🚀 Important Dates 📅 Below is a list of important dates
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 are 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
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
Will we see 75ms pings from Cape Town to London soon? Using Space Lasers or Undersea Fibre? You probably know about Elon Musk’s Starlink project, but have you heard about Hollow Fibre? Both of these ideas have the potential to radically reduce your international latency. You are probably thinking: how is this possible? Surely the speed of light is constant, and we just
MANRS members improve internet routing security in four ways: 1️⃣ Filter incorrect routing information2️⃣ Stop spoofing3️⃣ Coordination (PeeringDB)4️⃣ Global validation (RPKI) Atomic is one of only 5 South African ISPs that implement all of these: https://www.manrs.org/isps/participants/ Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security is a global initiative, supported by the Internet Society, that provides crucial fixes to reduce the most common routing
Atomic is now live on the Vumatel fibre network! 🚀 We have launched fibre internet services on the Vumatel fibre network. If you are interested in our Vumatel packages they are listed on our site here, https://www.atomic.co.za/vumatel/ and if you feel like switching (and are in the greater Cape Town or Cape Winelands area) please get in touch. Our Vumatel services are live on Vumatel’s GPON and
