Unified comms system services 1m users

The largest unified communications system in the world has been deployed in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The system is built around a software solution from TrueConf that provides video conferencing, messaging, and presence services for...

CEOs: Africa can take back its own future

Africa has the necessary tools to develop by making use of its own resources, and possesses the means to take back its future into its own hands. This is the conclusion reached by speakers on various panels on the second day of the African CEO Forum. Pierre-Antoine...

Young entrepreneurs aim to make a difference

Young people look to entrepreneurship opportunities primarily to make a difference in the world. The Entrepreneurship Survey, based on an emailed questionnaire answered by a selection of young entrepreneurs within the 15 to 25 age group, and located across the African...

Fibre to everywhere close to reality in SA

South Africa’s telecoms industry is on the cusp of its next wave of growth, thanks to the growing uptake of bandwidth intensive applications such as Cloud services and Internet TV streaming from businesses and consumers alike. That’s according to Suveer...

Strong growth ahead for software-defined WANs

Software-defined networking has already arrived in the data centre, providing the agility and responsiveness that data centere networks need to meet the demands of cloud computing. Now the focus is shifting toward wide area networks (WANs), which can also be optimised...

Crowdsourced safety apps take off

The very nature of social media’s open communication and crowdsourced information provides a powerful tool for public safety. This is according to ttrumput co-founder Grant Theis, who says: “The growth of social media continues to grow exponentially...