Cybersmart is the network for people who care about the engineering, it builds its own fibre (Lightspeed), designs its own hardware, and obsesses over speed and clean IP.
The story behind Cybersmart
Cybersmart began life in 1996 as a Sea Point internet café and became Cybersmart in 1998, founded by Laurie Fialkov who still leads it. In 2022 an infrastructure fund took a minority stake to fund fibre expansion. Its own fibre network is branded Lightspeed.
How Cybersmart & Lightspeed work
Cybersmart is unusual: it’s both an ISP and a network operator. Its own Lightspeed fibre is open-access (other ISPs resell over it), and where Lightspeed doesn’t reach, Cybersmart sells over other networks like Openserve, Vumatel, Frogfoot, Octotel and MetroFibre. Check your address to see what’s available.
Where Lightspeed reaches
Lightspeed’s own fibre is selective and concentrated in Cape Town neighbourhoods, while Cybersmart’s service reaches much further by riding on the big open-access networks nationally.
Speeds & signing up
Cybersmart and Lightspeed offer uncapped, symmetrical fibre up to 1 Gbps, with a strong emphasis on native IPv6. Check your address to compare packages.
Common questions
Is Lightspeed the same as Cybersmart?
Lightspeed is Cybersmart’s own fibre network; Cybersmart is the ISP. Other ISPs can also sell over Lightspeed.