The advent of wireless solutions and innovation within the VOIP and satellite technology space will continue to have a significant impact on trade and commerce.
This is the view of management at Q-KON, a respected and established service provider within the burgeoning telecommunications service delivery arena.
Q-KON is a South Africa-based engineering group, incorporating Q-KON South Africa and Q-KON Nigeria, which specialises in providing turnkey communication solutions and managed network services for the emerging African telecommunications market.
The company's main strategy to service a rapidly expanding marketplace lies in the integration of its commanding capability in wireless, VOIP and satellite technology.
This leadership position is reinforced by the company's available skills, its experience, its representation of leading equipment manufacturers and its status as a specialist distributor of niche products.
Satellite services
One of the main channels of value that Q-KON has established within the broader Africa market is that of satellite access solutions. The company designs, builds and operates satellite access service platforms to enable connectivity from any location in Africa.
The company's service portfolio covers Business Broadband Internet Services, high capacity point-to-point Internet Trunk Services and multi-star and mesh based networks for Corporate Data Networks.
Q-KON management believes this portfolio is a testament to the company's in-house expertise and the reliability of the service it continues to offer existing and emerging markets.
Enhanced service unplugged
Expertise and a proven track record is what Q-KON's management believes differentiates the company within a highly competitive marketplace.
As an example, Dawie de Wet, CEO, Q-KON refers to the fact that Q-KON has provided wireless networks since 1988 and has extensive experience in providing solutions based on WiMax, WiFi, PDH & SDH, as well as microwave technologies.
“Our RF propagation planning, system engineering expertise and installation capabilities enable us to offer turnkey solutions within challenging environments. The ability of organisations to use resources strategically, to adopt and embrace innovative solutions to improve their communications and output, will ultimately determine survival. To this end it is absolutely critical to remain ahead of technology trends and best practices,” says De Wet.
Another reason for Q-KON's influence and rapid rate of achievement to date is due to the number of strategic partnerships it has in place with recognised solution manufacturers and established suppliers.
These industry alliances include the likes of Wavion Wireless Networks, ND SatCom and NET-Quintum.
The voice of industry
Q-KON has underlined its authority within VOIP as a long-time distributor of NET-Quintum's intelligent VOIP switches, gateways and appliance solutions.
The ability of organisations to use resources strategically, to adopt and embrace innovative solutions to improve their communications and output, will ultimately determine survival. To this end it is absolutely critical to remain ahead of technology trends and best practices.
Dawie de Wet, CEO, Q-KON
This distribution agreement, in place since 2002, ensures the delivery of a broad range of solutions and configurations to the market, including the VX and UX-series of VOIP switches for Microsoft OCS R2, and Lync.
According to De Wet, NET-Quintum products protect the initial capital outlay by continuously adding value from IP-enabling TDM PBXes, later allowing the customer to implement an IP PBX, and later still moving to IP Centrex applications or Microsoft's Unified Communications.
In IP Centrex or hosted IP PBX applications a built-in SIP proxy ensures the 'survivability' of the remote or branch office by ensuring uninterrupted call ability to the PSTN, or between the local users should the connection to the central soft switch fail.
The 'survivability' concept is taken even further in Microsoft Lync applications, where a NET-Quintum SBA (survivable branch appliance) not only ensures the calling capability survives the WAN failure, but all other Lync features such as “presence” remains functioning and available to the users.
De Wet predicts that triple play (converged voice, video and data) and unified communications will increase in substance and importance locally.
At the same time, he states clearly that Q-KON's relevance and market position will reflect growth and the company is more than up to the task of meeting local requirements.
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