For financial success, spend on employees

When it comes to HR, most companies budget for salaries, refreshments and, possibly, for skills development; but what about employee engagement? By Liane McGowan, founder of Happy Monday . Often employees are an organisation’s greatest operational expense, yet...

Microwave: adapt, innovate or die

Microwave technologies have a valuable role to play, but service providers and technology need to evolve to meet different market demands, as well as being able to act on new opportunities, according to Hendrik du Plooy of Broadlink. He adds that there are several key...

TT-Network completes network sharing project

TT-Network (TTN), the joint venture between TeliaSonera and Telenor, has completed the final phase of its ground-breaking Single RAN network sharing project, for which Nokia Networks was the sole radio and services provider. This is the first time ever that a network...

Go modular for maximised data centre agility

The vast majority of today’s data centres have significantly underutilised power systems. Why? Because nobody wants to run short of power. So when power systems are specified it is often done on the assumption that the facility will ultimately have a full compliment...

Access Kenya rolls out XON solution

XON, with Procera Networks, has delivered a multi-tenant system to Access Kenya’s entire customer-base, providing a self-service portal showing detailed near realtime, per-application reporting, per customer.  The system also enables revenue protection through billing...

Bandwidth is pivotal to SA’s growth

South Africa’s bandwidth pricing has experienced less dramatic reductions of late, after several years of more aggressive price drops – but, predicts Brian Timperley of Turrito Networks, a new round of disruption is due under the twin pressures of fibre rollout...