Fiberguide Consulting and Training
In collaboration with International and local organisations, FiberGuide offers a range of training courses in optical communications. FiberGuide recently announced that their next training event in Africa will take place at the Sandton Lodge in Johannesburg, South Africa, from October 2 through October 6. The...
Whether you are a manager, engineer or technician involved in the deployment of fiber optic infrastructure or designing and planning optical communication networks, fiber optic training or optical network training is essential to get you up to speed with your role. Fiber optics and optical communication technologies evolve...
Following are answers to frequently asked questions about CONA: What is CONA? CONA is an intensive 5-day fiber optic training course for engineers and managers involved with the designing and planning of national fiber optic backbones, metro networks, fiber to the antenna, enterprise wide area networks and...
The common market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is reportedly considering the rival of the regional fiber optic backbone network, dabbed COMTEL. According to ITWeb, COMESA’s director of infrastructure, Baptiste Matabazi, said that COMESA was now reviewing the business model to ensure that it...
Industry leaders at the International Telecoms Week (ITW) conference held in May in Chicago addressed the need for accelerating the investment in infrastructure to facilitate Africa’s broadband growth. We must also add that human capacity building is important to ensure the development of cost efficient...
FiberGuide is pleased to announce that they have signed a partnership agreement with Optical Technology Training (OTT) to deliver a certified training course in optical networking throughout Africa. The comprehensive, internationally well regarded, 5-day Certified Optical Network Associate (CONA) course will replace the 2-day BICSI...
One common denominator between Donald Trump and the French ultra-right presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, is their opposition to globalization. Unfortunately for Trump and Le Pen, globalization is not reversible as information and communications technology (ICT) is transforming the world into one global village. Policy makers...
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) is a formidable cybersecurity risk threating companies, organizations, and government departments. Enterprises typically subscribe to anti-DDoS attack service providers since the volume of traffic from such attacks can be far beyond the capacity of the network under attack. However, the...
Whenever possible, we would like to offer the technical community the opportunity to share their knowledge in the above broad topics. One of our goals is to share information and knowledge on advances in data center and wide area networking technologies. We are therefore reaching...
An overwhelming number of businesses, large and small, are opting to have their servers hosted in a colocation data center, instead of building and operating their own data centers. In this article, we focus on important considerations for IT managers contemplating going the server colocation...