NEC buys into SA’s XON

Jul 21, 2015

NEC Europe has invested in local company XON, in order to leverage the expertise in the region to provide greater sales coverage in the sub-Sahara African market – and accelerate regional growth for both companies in the telecoms, government, enterprise and energy sectors. The two companies have explored joint sub-Sahara Africa business opportunities for the past 18 months and identified many areas of collaboration.

XON scoops top Juniper Networks award

Jan 14, 2015

XON has scooped Juniper Networks’ top award for South African partners for the second year running at the recent award ceremony in Dubai. XON is a value-added reseller of the Juniper Networks telecommunications and networking infrastructure throughout Africa and has...

XON hosts third annual summit

Sep 11, 2014

XON hosts third annual summit XON, the pan-African ICT group, hosted its two-day, invitation-only annual summit at Sun City last week. Among attendees were delegates from Seacom, South Africa’s State Information Technology Agency (SITA), Telecom Namibia, Internet...

First 100Gbps fibre link in Africa from XON

May 27, 2014

Pan-African ICT group XON and ADVA Optical Networking have implemented Africa’s first 100Gbps link between three data centres at a financial institution. The link provides the capability to perform synchronisation between the data centres as well as replication,...

XON learnership programme grows skills

May 19, 2014

Pan-African ICT group, XON, has enjoyed considerable success from its learnership programme that kicked off in 2009.  To date all five graduates of the first round, which lasted until 2011, have been employed full-time by XON and the business is looking to employ the...