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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
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
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
Avoid fibre frustration! Our support team would like to share three things which are proven to help customers avoid frustration with their fibre internet service: 1) A Laptop with an Ethernet Port or Ethernet Dongle2) A UPS for your Fibre ONT and Wifi Router3) A trusted techie or PC support service If you already have these, well done! If you
What a year! Recently one of the Atomic team members was at a braai in Stellenbosch and overheard: I’ve heard about Atomic, that’s the fibre ISP started for friends and if you refer friends you get a discount. Graham We are very happy to have expanded our offering beyond just our friends, and that lots of customers are enjoying discounted
