Networking

From 2009, fiber optic cable deployment falling connectivity costs have dominated Africa's tech headlines. This year, the focus shifted from infrastructure to content and value added services to capitalize on investments, as both the public and private sectors provided incentives to developers. Technology is expected to be Africa's growth frontier and government services have been cited as a major driver, providing opportunities for business growth and better citizen participation.  read more »

Six months after withdrawing from Angola and South African markets to concentrate on the local market, Telecom Namibia is deploying the African country's first optical dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) network.  read more »

The latest text to set new rules on spectrum use in the European Union fails to deal with the potential problem of interference in consumer equipment, according to a trade organization.  read more »

Cisco Systems has completed most of a major restructuring that began early this year, and on Wednesday posted revenue and profit for its fiscal first quarter that exceeded analysts' expectations.  read more »

The cloud-based design of Amazon's Silk browser has positive security side effects because it encrypts all traffic between users and websites, especially important when connected over unprotected Wi-Fi networks where session hijacking attacks can occur easily, the company said.  read more »

The Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable Monday landed in Sierra Leone, an event hailed by President Ernest Koroma as opening the country to the world, with the promise of providing job opportunities and reducing the cost of communications when it becomes operational.  read more »

Africa's largest mobile operator, MTN, has increased its stake in Rwandacell to 80 percent in a bid to consolidate its operations after the Rwandan government awarded rival operator Airtel an operating license.  read more »

Uganda Friday inaugurated the second phase of an Internet backbone infrastructure measuring 1,380 kilometers (855 miles), bringing the total amount of fiber optics laid in the country so far to 1,548 km.  read more »

South Africa has become the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to take steps toward utilizing unused spectrum in the television band for Wi-Fi for underserved areas.  read more »

Kenya Data Networks (KDN) officially opened its new company headquarters at the Sameer Business Park off Mombasa Road. This is after the company launched its data centre a few weeks ago on the same location and has plans of lighting up its fiber optic link between Kampala and Kigali in the next 30 days.  read more »