Who is Cape Connect Internet?

Starting as a small wireless internet service provider, based in Somerset West and servicing the Helderberg community, Cape Connect now has a national fibre footprint, while still offering high speed wireless services to the residents of greater Cape Town.

In partnership with major players in the local and international industry, we provide reliable broadband connections to home and corporate users. We compete on quality of service, not price. We believe that you get what you pay for, and strive to provide the best. We have systems of checks and controls in place to ensure that you receive the best service possible. We don’t chase money. Instead, we chase honest, reliable, clients and aim to provide these with an honest, reliable service.

We have a team of qualified, dedicated staff that not only has many years of experience in wireless technology, but is also experienced in the intricacies of fibre optic LANs and WANs. Our team of support engineers are always available to handle any query you may have, while our security team are able to advise on and implement security strategies for single computers, a local network of computers or a multinational network.

We have our own ASN, our own IP addresses, separate local and international links with built in redundancy and peer with many local, regional and international networks. We run a fully redundant OSPF network. If one fibre link were to go down, traffic will fall over to the other link.

We are also fully IPv6 enabled. Each client router issues both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Any installation of a device on the client side of our router that negates the use of IPv6 on our network is subject to an increased subscription fee.

Our network is managed end-to-end, from where our network connects into the greater network-of-networks that is the internet, right up to the router we supply to our clients. Managed client routers are provided as pre-configured, locked down, and remotely monitored by our support and technical staff.

History

We have been in operation since 2008, making Cape Connect Internet (Pty) Ltd one of the longest-operating ISPs in South Africa.

We registered with ICASA as a Communications Service Provider in 2008, licenced to provide both wireless and fibre services throughout South Africa.

We were the first ISP in South Africa to roll out fibre-to-the-home in a residential estate. We pre-date ISPs such as Frogfoot Networks, Octotel and Axxess.

Cape Connect Internet's network was one of the first in South Africa with full 'dual-stack' IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity. We were also one of the first ISP's in the world to make 'dual-stack' IPv4 and IPv6 available directly to our customers.