Unravelling Cisco’s DNA platform

Streamlining IT operations, gaining better control of IT systems and end-to-end network management are key to an organisation’s ability to use IT for what it is intended – business innovation. But, according to Collins Emadau, Comstor Architecture Lead,...

Internal education, simulations key for security

A recent report by GreatHorn reveals that security experts have seen a 25% increase in the number of phishing emails that successfully evade security defences and arrive in users’ inboxes, in the past year alone. By Lukas van der Merwe, specialist sales...

Vumatel launches prepaid fibre-to-the-home platform

South African fibre-to-the-home network operator (FNO) Vumatel has launched a prepaid platform for fibre-to-the-home services, with its Mitchells Plain proof-of-concept activated in July 2019. To date, more than 1 000 homes have activated their fibre leveraging the...

New app helps solve language problems

The Fourth edition of Practical English Usage, a world bestseller with sales of over 2-million, is now available as an app. This reference tool helps teachers and higher-level learners with common language problems in English, making it quicker and easier to look up...

WiFi 6: A new era of wireless connectivity

Twenty years ago, with the release of 802.11b, WiFi began its conquest of the world networking scene in earnest. WiFi can easily be called out as one of the most popular technologies of the last two decades. Just as mobile telephony and mobile internet, it has become...

Use WDM to maximise infrastructure for 5G success

With new technologies regularly being rolled out for 5G – the fifth generation of mobile networks – operators can maximise their existing infrastructure to meet customer demands with waveguide division multiplexing (WDM). Marcel Fouché, networking and...