Image by Chaitawat Pawapoowadon, Pixabay. According to CableLabs, the organisation that created the standards for the Hybrid Fibre Copper (HFC) network used by all cable operators, networks need to use significantly more fibre and far less copper moving forward. CableLabs suggests that in the future, the ultimate cable network will not have any copper in it, except within the home or office. This is as reported in a blog entry by ProLabs, a global leader in optical networking infrastructure, which is focused on innovations in optical transport and connectivity. ProLabs is distributed in sub-Saharan Africa by Networks Unlimited and its solutions are used to enable copper and fibre connectivity for data centre and telecommunications projects in the ICT industry. “In countries where the theft...
Image sourced from Networks Unlimited. The saying ‘Less is more’ was first popularised by German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and today minimalism is a movement that extends to many aspects of life, including architecture, lifestyle, home décor, and fashion. But Tintri would argue that, in the arena of IT, sometimes you need to embrace a philosophy of ‘More is more’. So says Michael Donaldson, Tintri Product Manager at value-added distributor Networks Unlimited, who explains, “Tintri, a provider of intelligent infrastructure for virtualised and non-virtualised enterprise IT, brings better insights into systems, as well as improved understandings of workload activity: how your organisation and its users are behaving as regards interaction with data. “Intelligent infrastructure means ...
Stefan van de Giessen, General Manager: Cybersecurity at Networks Unlimited. Civic-minded South Africans watched with growing concern at the recent extreme civil unrest incidents that flared up around parts of the country. Society and the government alike were caught largely unawares, with the defence minister shockingly clarifying that the South African security cluster ‘had almost been caught with its pants down’. “Whether you have a certain amount of admiration for the unexpected honesty of this statement from the minister, or are more interested in monitoring positive actions to counteract the recent looting, the fact remains that this explosion of unrest has a sobering message for South Africa on so many levels,” says Stefan van de Giessen, General Manager: Cybersecurity at Networks U...
Risna Steenkamp, General Manager: ESM Division at Networks Unlimited Africa The rise of the pandemic last year meant that corporates around the globe had to embrace a highly dispersed, virtualised environment to keep the wheels of business turning. This is now changing the way that banks need to move forward, with both their security as well as their service assurance. So says Darren Anstee, Chief Technology Officer for security at NETSCOUT, a leading global provider of service assurance, security and business analytics. He explains that, at the start of 2020, digital transformation in the financial services sector was already well underway, and the intervening year has only accelerated this transformation. Writing in a recent blog, he notes that, “The COVID-19 lockdown shut branches, forc...