Sep 21, 2017
Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town — To enable the digital business, digital plumbing has to be in place, and new networks are going to be needed to run the new systems. Neil Rickard, networking analyst at Gartner, explains that the new scenario is...
Sep 21, 2017
Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town — Wide area networks (WANs) today are less than ideal. They were typically bolted together in a fragile mish-mash of technologies – but they are expected to cope with traffic that is doubling in volume every...
Sep 21, 2017
Telkom will double the data allocation on all their Smart Broadband LTE prepaid and post-paid deals while leaving prices unchanged. The promotional offer is immediately available to both new and existing LTE prepaid and LTE contract customers. “Telkom has worked...
Sep 21, 2017
Africa is fast becoming the dumping ground for eWaste with a growing amount of computer equipment from western nations being found on toxic eWaste dumps throughout the continent, often being pulled apart by children as young as five. A computer monitor from a...
Sep 21, 2017
Despite challenging economic conditions, retail sales growth for July 2017 was the highest recorded for that month since 2015, according to the Mastercard SpendingPulse report, a macroeconomic report tracking retail sales. Nominal (not adjusting for price...
Sep 21, 2017
The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) recorded $6,43-billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2017 (2Q17), an increase of 7,8% year over year, according to IDC. Meanwhile, the worldwide total enterprise and service provider (SP) router market recorded...
