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Table of Contents

*Introduction
*Points of Presence
*Areas of Operation
*Customer Profile
*Staff Mailing List

Introduction

The Internet Solution (TIS) was founded in 1993. In the three years of its existence, it has played a crucial role in the incredible growth in Internet usage by South African business. TIS provides high quality Internet access and technical support to South Africa's leading corporations, making them more productive, more profitable and better informed. Today, South Africa has the 15th largest number of Internet hosts world wide. And 70% of the commercial domains within South Africa are serviced by The Internet Solution.

Going Up: Bandwidth of TIS' International Connections
Colourful Graph going Skyward

TIS provides the fastest international IP link in Africa via the SAT-2 undersea fibre optic cable. Current international bandwidth includes two high speed links via Sprint and AT & T. The Internet Solution also provides a direct circuit into Uninet - the South African University network. This facilitates local access for its clients to Southern African academic resources.

TIS is now in its third year of business. Like the company, the people within TIS are young, dynamic, highly-skilled and highly-motivated. Together they provide a service which covers all aspects of connecting to the Internet: registration, configuration and training. Our service also includes configuring routers, mail, domain names and web servers. But establishing an Internet connection is only the initial phase of TIS service; the company has earned a reputation for its high level of on-going customer support. Each client's connection is constantly monitored to enable immediate detection and correction of faults.

The Internet Solution maintains dynamic alliances with key international and local networking figures such as Sun, Silicon Graphics, Centera and Dimension Data. Such alliances allow TIS to partner important IT projects, providing vital Internet expertise and assisting organizations maintaining wide area networks to maximize the use of existing equipment through the Internet.

Although the company's primary activity continues to be dedicated Internet connectivity, The Internet Solution has diversified its operation with the launch of two sister companies:

Trusted Network Solutions was formed in response to growing demand for secure Internet-based systems for commercial use. TNS services included firewall installation and configuration and secure e-mail services.

Internet Connection was formed in partnership with the leading software retail chain, Software Connection with the aim of providing cheap dial-up access to the Internet. Internet Connection customers are provided with Netmanage's Chameleon Internet access suite, pay a flat-rate and have access to Web space to develop their own HTML pages.

The Internet Solution operates an official name server for the South African commercial domain and maintains the org.za domain for non-profit organizations. TIS also provides the official African repository of Internet documents and maintains mirror sites of important international networking resources to offer faster access for its clients.

TIS provides an authoring service for World Wide Web sites. Recent prominent projects include Amalgamated Banks of South Africa (ABSA), and Novell South Africa. We mantain a public Web server, WebCo., whose clients include The Electronic Mail & Guardian and South African Airways.

And while it concentrates on high-end digital links to the Internet, TIS also has facilities for single-user dial-up access, as well as dedicated staff to assist dial-up users with any connection difficulties.

Points of Presence

Having originally established an Internet POP (Point of Presence) in Johannesburg, The Internet Solution now has POPs in all the major cities in South Africa. TIS also has a number of dial-up accounts from commercial and government organisations beyond South Africa operating primarily in Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

Areas of Operation

The Internet Solution covers all areas of Internet access and related project management. This includes:
o co-ordination of Telkom leased line installation on behalf of clients
o official IP number allocation and Internet domain registration
o full host configuration including Mail & DNS
o security consulting & implementation
o recommendation and installation of client software
o development and installation of WWW servers
o development of WWW home pages
o value added services including commercial news feeds
o training in system administration, security and WWW authoring

Customer Profile

The Internet Solution connects a range of commercial, financial, governmental and political organisations. In all situations, the company strives to understand the requirements of the organisation and the relationship of Internet connectivity to the rest of the customer's operation. By drawing on a wide range of experiences the company is able to play an active role in the integration of Internet connectivity into the existing environment in order to ensure minimal disruption. The nature of the services provided requires on-going customer contact and The Internet Solution is committed to developing sustained long term relationships with its clients. Our web site hosts a Business Park featuring all our clients.

The Internet Solution / Last Updated 7 March 1996