🛠️ No More Dog's Breakfast | How Fusion Fixes the Messy Telecom Demarcation Point

If you’ve ever opened a comms cabinet or peered behind the reception desk at a small business, you’ll know what we’re talking about: power cables, fibre jumpers, Ethernet spaghetti, and a dog's breakfast of cheap-as-slaptjips Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) — usually a Mikrotik or something equally fragile. The demarcation point for telecommunications in South Africa is, in a word, chaotic.

🧩 The Problem | A Race to the Bottom

Telecoms providers are locked in a price war. Everyone’s trying to shave off R20 from a monthly link or cut costs by installing the cheapest possible router sourced from a warehouse the size of a rugby field in Shenzhen. The result?

• ❌ No standardisation

• ❌ No centralised management

• ❌ No fault isolation

• ❌ A whole bunch of headaches for MSPs and customers alike

You’ll often find:

• Fibre ONTs shoved next to noisy UPS units

• LTE modems lying loosely under desks

• Unlabelled Ethernet cables

• Duplicate power bricks heating up like a boerewors roll on a skottel

It’s a mess. Worse still, support becomes a nightmare. When the Internet goes down, the poor on-site staff don’t know where to begin — and neither do the network operators, because every site is a snowflake.

🧼 The Fusion Fix | Universal Demarcation Redefined

Enter Fusion’s SD-WAN, the cleanest thing to hit South African telecommunications since the invention of cable ties.

Fusion turns the SD-WAN unit into a universal Smart Premises Equipment (SPE) — managing all access technologies, whether it's:

• Fibre

• Fixed Wireless Access

• LTE

• Satellite

It becomes the single, central point of routing, monitoring, and management, supporting multi-WAN, link failover, load balancing, and even virtualised firewalls (NFV) — all from one device, controlled via the powerful Antares cloud portal.

No more:

🐕 Spaghetti behind the till
🧠 Guesswork when a link fails
🎲 Rolling the dice with firmware updates on imported junk

🎯 Why This Matters

• ISPs and MSPs: Reduce truck rolls and support calls. No more playing "guess the cable" over the phone.

• Businesses: Faster installs, less downtime, and better customer experience.

• Support Staff: Clear topology, integrated tools, and remote management.

With Fusion, the demarcation point finally becomes what it should be — a clean, well-managed handoff, not a trash heap of telco regret.

✅ Wrap

This is how the telecoms demarcation should work in 2025: one powerful SD-WAN device, clean cabling, seamless failover, and a professional installation that reflects the business it supports.

So ja, no more slaptjips CPE. No more chaos.
Just Fusion. Clean. Stable. Beautiful. 🌍🔗