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Seacom awarded “Best Pan African Initiative” at the AfricaCom Awards 2011

November 18th, 2011 | admin

SEACOM and MAIN One, the only two privately funded and open-access based African submarine fibre optic cable systems, were awarded “Best Pan African Initiative” at the AfricaCom Awards 2011 ceremony held in Cape Town, South Africa, last week. The award recognises an initiative taken by an organisation or a group of organisations to improve telecommunications services at a regional or continental level.
Main One Chief Executive Officer, Funke Opeke, explained: “Through this partnership, Main One and SEACOM have extended their individual cable systems to the opposite coasts of Africa without the efforts required to construct brand new routes.

Comsol Install its New Wireless Multiservice wide-area Network Solution at Samancor Chrome

November 15th, 2011 | admin

Wireless solutions provider Comsol, a Convergence Partners investee, started the R2-million installation of its new wireless multiservice wide-area network (WAN) solution at ferrochrome producer Samancor Chrome’s project sites, in Mpumalanga and the North West, in September.
Comsol chief commercial officer Darren Morgan tells Mining Weekly that the contract entails the installation of customised carrier-class high-speed wireless links to connect Samancor Chrome’s different sites.

Tags: cable, circuits, communication, Comsol, connectivity, Darren Morgan, efficiency, ferrochrome, infrastructure, installation, kilometres, link, Radio, Samancor Chrome, spectrum, Technology, WAN, Wireless
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FibreCo awards fibre optic network construction contract to technology Giant ZTE

September 23rd, 2011 | admin

FibreCo Telecommunications (“FibreCo”), a joint venture between Cell C, Convergence Partners and Internet Solutions, announced the awarding of a contract for construction of its nation-wide open-access fibre optic network. FibreCo’s objective is to facilitate affordable and reliable high-speed Internet access for South African citizens and businesses.

Internet Solutions to build state of the art green data centre

September 23rd, 2011 | admin

Convergence Partners’ investee company, Internet Solutions, is making moves towards an enhanced sustainable data centre model, with the development of its new Tier3 facility in Johannesburg, scheduled for completion in Q4 of 2011. This is the first African facility of its kind to be designed and equipped with the world-class KyotoCooling technology solution for efficient and reliable autonomous cooling for data centres.

Tags: cloud services, Convergence Partners, cooling, data centre, Dimension Data, greener, Greg Montjoie, infrastructure, internet Solutions, KyotoCooling technology, Nicholas Shaw, PUE, Tier3
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Seacom appoints Mark Simpson as new CEO

August 30th, 2011 | admin

SEACOM, the pan-African ICT enabler, announced the appointment of Mark Simpson as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with effect 5 September 2011. Brian Herlihy, the current CEO, will remain with the company as a member of the Board and take on the new role of Executive Director where he will focus on strategic projects essential for SEACOM’s continued success.

Tags: Africa, Brian Herlihy, cable, CEO, ICT, infrastructure, Internet, Mark Simpson, projects, SEACOM, strategic, Technology, Telecommunications
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Seacom and SKA sign MoU

August 5th, 2011 | admin

Seacom, a Convergence Partners investee company, has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Square Kilometre Array (SKA) South Africa to provide support for the country’s €1.5-billion SKA radio telescope project.
SKA South Africa site bid manager Dr. Bruce Wallace said in placing the SKA data transport capacity requirement in perspective, the SKA network is estimated to be 100 to 150 times larger than the current World Wide Web network.

Tags: bidder, Bruce Wallace, capacity, Convergence Partners, data, economies, infrastructure, mega-science, memorandum, network, Research, SEACOM, Square Kolometre Array (SKA) telescope, Technology, understanding, World Wide Web
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Seacom invests R100m in local infrastructure

July 25th, 2011 | admin

Seacom, a Convergence Partners investee company, has invested R100 million in additional South African infrastructure to meet the continuous high growth in demand for broadband services and applications. The investment includes the purchase of physical optical fibre links from Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) as well as installing the equipment required for Seacom to manage the network linking KwaZulu Natal’s coast where the Seacom marine cable lands to two redundant Points of Presence (PoPs) in Gauteng.

Internet Solutions acquires majority stake in Synaq

July 4th, 2011 | admin

Convergence Partner’s investee company, Internet Solutions (IS) has acquired a majority stake in locally managed Linux service provider Synaq, for an undisclosed sum.
IS executive for communication services Wayne Speechly says the acquisition boosts the ability of IS to tackle the growing need for managed communication services in the small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) market, through the delivery of robust hosted Linux and open-source technologies. Synaq, on the other hand, will benefit from access to IS’s infrastructure and gain a strong base of support for African and international expansion.

FibreCo national network on schedule

April 21st, 2011 | admin

FibreCo Telecommunications (“FibreCo”), a partnership between Cell C, Internet Solutions and Convergence Partners, is making excellent progress with its plans for the deployment of its open-access long-haul terrestrial fibre optic broadband network in South Africa.
The project is on track with the geotechnical and environmental studies for the first routes already completed and the tender process moving ahead swiftly. A wide range of other essential elements relating to permitting, engineering, environmental management and development of detailed customer solutions are also ongoing.

Tags: Cell C, Convergence Partners, deployment, engineering, FibreCo, geotechnical, infrastructure, internet Solutions, Networks, optic cable, project, structuring, Telecommunication
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All systems go for satellite launch

March 30th, 2011 | admin

The countdown has begun for the launch of the New Dawn satellite tonight. Intelsat has confirmed that everything is so far on schedule for the satellite’s launch aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the Arianespace Launch Complex in Kourou, French Guiana, at about 23:45 South African time.

The Intelsat New Dawn satellite is owned by a joint venture between Intelsat and a consortium led by Convergence Partners.