Case Studies:

Lake Smit and Partners

• Business case
  • To enable x rays and CAT scans to be distributed between hospitals in Durban for case referrals, work load sharing and expertise development
• Technical requirement
  • 100 mbps wide area network, the same speed as the local area network so there was no point of bottle-neck
• Airband Solution
• Deploy a wireless mesh network with two nodes at each hospital site enabling meshing, redundancy and 100 mbps bandwidth
• Project cost
  • R1.5 million
• Financial benefit
  • Verses Telkom – Airband solution was 100 times more cost effective
  • Verses Metro Connect Airband solution was 20 times more cost effective
  • Customer owns the equipment rather than rents

Grindrod

• Business case
  • To connect the Grindrod bank to head office and the warehouses on Mayden Wharf to head office. Provide a redundant alternative to diginet lines
• Technical requirement
  • 50 mbps network linking up 7 sites
• Airband Solution
• Deploy a wireless mesh network with three nodes and 6 CPE’s, one at each site enabling meshing, redundancy and 50 mbps bandwidth
• Project cost
  • R400 k
• Financial benefit
  • Verses Telkom – Airband solution was 400 times more cost effective
  • Verse Metro Connect Airband solution was 50 times more cost effective
  • Customer owns the equipment rather than rents