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Industry Insight
29 September 2006
Full service integration of upmarket residential estate as broadband solution appeals to developers
Johannesburg broadband-based services company, GTS, to enable new Kyalami estate and marry all communication functions in broadband community integration
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Johannesburg, 29 September 2006
] -
Gauteng broadband-based services company Goal Technology Solutions (GTS) announced that it has been contracted by developer Zotos Construction to supply one of South Africa's first truly integrated broadband residential solutions.
The technology, using the existing electricity grid within the estate, will supply the upmarket Park24 development in Kyalami with broadband Internet access and telephone services for all units, as well as surveillance cameras, security communication, and access control.
While the technology itself is not entirely new, says GTS CEO Adrian Maguire, it is significant that a developer of Zotos Property Group's stature has sought a complete broadband solution in a residential development application.
"The residential market is demanding cost-effective broadband services provisioning on one seamlessly integrated homogenous network, and with backbone bandwidths of more than 200Mbps possible, that is a very real possibility," says Maguire. "The inherent cost-effectiveness of marrying all functions within residential developments - from essential services such as access control and security to value-added service like Internet access and e-mail to all residents - is very attractive."
Broadband across electricity grids is one of the most stable systems available, accessible by simply plugging into any electrical wall socket within the estate.
"Convergence of systems in residential and business environments is a marked trend," says Maguire. "Not only do system and communication management integration save substantial costs, but management and availability of information becomes streamlined and sustainable within a secure environment.
"South Africa has an advanced electricity grid and the potential for leveraging this network to the benefit of all South Africans technologically is immense."
The technology, using the existing electricity grid within the estate, will supply the upmarket Park24 development in Kyalami with broadband Internet access and telephone services for all units, as well as surveillance cameras, security communication, and access control.
While the technology itself is not entirely new, says GTS CEO Adrian Maguire, it is significant that a developer of Zotos Property Group's stature has sought a complete broadband solution in a residential development application.
"The residential market is demanding cost-effective broadband services provisioning on one seamlessly integrated homogenous network, and with backbone bandwidths of more than 200Mbps possible, that is a very real possibility," says Maguire. "The inherent cost-effectiveness of marrying all functions within residential developments - from essential services such as access control and security to value-added service like Internet access and e-mail to all residents - is very attractive."
Broadband across electricity grids is one of the most stable systems available, accessible by simply plugging into any electrical wall socket within the estate.
"Convergence of systems in residential and business environments is a marked trend," says Maguire. "Not only do system and communication management integration save substantial costs, but management and availability of information becomes streamlined and sustainable within a secure environment.
"South Africa has an advanced electricity grid and the potential for leveraging this network to the benefit of all South Africans technologically is immense."
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Goal Technology Solutions
Goal Technology Solutions (GTS) has developed integrated solutions specifically for housing communities and office parks. As no additional cabling is required, PLC is applicable to new developments as sell as a retrofit to existing ones. GTS is an innovative South African company that specialises in the delivery services of power line communication network.
GTS is an approved systems integrator and an added-value reseller for Mitsubishi Electrical Power Line Communications. Mitsubishi developed its own high-performance PLC solution using the 200Mbps chipsets supplied by Ds2. This is the core of the GTS proposition.
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Refilwe Lesabane
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refilwe@mbpublicity.co.za
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