Datatec subsidiary Logicalis has acquired Netarx, a supplier of Cisco products and services in the US mid-west, for a maximum consideration of US$34m, to be settled with cash and deferred Datatec shares. Netarx, based in Detroit
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JSE-listed technology group Altech has appointed Willie Oosthuysen as its new chief technology officer. Oosthuysen was previously a regional director for systems engineering at Cisco. Oosthuysen, who has replaced Ashraff Paruk
Worldwide Internet traffic will quadruple by 2015 with nearly 15bn fixed, mobile and machine-to-machine connections fuelling the growth. According to Cisco’s fifth annual Virtual Networking Index report, there will be nearly 3bn Internet
Telecommunications operator Neotel has lost its chief sales and marketing officer. Stefano Mattiello, who had been at Neotel for the past four years, joined networking company Cisco this week as its channel director in SA. Newly appointed Neotel CEO
Orange Kenya is set to become the second telecommunications operator in the East African nation to roll out fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services. Its plans follow Wananchi Group’s FTTH project
Africa and the Middle East are set to contribute 20% of total global mobile data traffic by 2015, according to a new global mobile data forecast from networking company Cisco
Jonas Bogoshi’s rise to become leader of one of SA’s most prominent listed IT companies, Gijima, is filled with stories of how he overcame hardship. The rags-to-riches story is a fairly common one shared by SA’s black elite, but
Triple-play services, consisting of television, telephony and broadband Internet access, delivered over the same physical cable infrastructure, are not something one typically associates with African telecommunications. Now, however, a Kenyan company, Wananchi, is planning to bring fibre connectivity to hundreds of thousands of homes in East Africa, in the process remaking how a continent thinks about what can be done with high-speed connectivity.
SA’s neglect of access networks for providing broadband connectivity has resulted in the country slipping in a world quality broadband ranking study conducted by Oxford University with US networking company Cisco. It’s the third study by the university
Kenya and Tanzania are to get high-speed fibre-to-the-home connections offering a triple-play bundle of broadband, telephony and cable television thanks to a US$200m investment from the private sector. The company behind the project, Wananchi — which is backed by Cisco Capital and East Africa Capital Partners — says it would love to do the same in SA, but the regulatory environment here precludes it from doing so.