SLT net upgrades to 3G bandwidth for fast access
Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) announced the upgrading and muscling up its
international internet backbone. SLTnet, the internet arm of SLT which
is the largest internet service provider (ISP) in Sri Lanka offers up to
3 Giga bits per second (Gbps) international internet bandwidth, adding
even more capacity to be of better serve to the nation.
SLT has direct connectivity to Global ISPs in Asia, Europe and USA as
well as the highest rated social networking, web application and video
service providers in the world.
This is part of the company’s drive to cater to the internet users’
needs by providing faster access to information at any time, any where
and on any device via its Next Generation Network (NGN) architecture.
With this initiative, SLT provides internet users in Sri Lanka super
fast access to online web applications such as web search, web mail,
calendar, images, VoIP calling applications, audio, video and maps
amongst a host of other most popular features on the internet.
Also SLT is now in the process of further upgrading and improving the
direct connectivity with social networking, web application and video
service providers as and when the need for broader bandwidth arises.
SLT CEO, Pat Abayasekara said, “SLT is happy to invite and facilitate
the hosting of mirror sites of all popular international sites like
Google, Yahoo, MSN, Facebook, Youtube etc., to improve the quality of
services to Sri Lankan internet users and to help avoid the bottlenecks
found in the international internet backbone. |