Corning Incorporated is spending more than R85 million to invest in Aberdare Fibre Optic Cables, an Altron company that is busy with a multimillion rand capacity upgrade at its Port Elizabeth plant.
Nortel Networks will announce a series of technology innovations and new alliances at the SuperComm 2001 conference currently underway in the US.
SmartForce and Cisco have entered an agreement under which SmartForce will deliver a networking learning solution to Cisco.
Molex Premise Networks has donated cabling and connectivity products to the Springboard charity in the UK.
SMEs looking at a security solution should not simply opt for the best firewall, but have to include several levels of security in their networks, says Getronics senior network engineer Jacques Allison.
Siemens Telecommunications has signed a co-operation agreement with Duxbury Networking, which represents Enterasys, a worldwide partner of Siemens.
By using existing cable with Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technologies, most local urban centres could receive high-speed Internet access, believes Martin May, sub-Saharan Africa regional director of Enterasys Networks.
Network Support Services releases End2End, a network monitoring system from NetIQ.
EMC, Cisco Systems and Oracle have announced the Accelerated expansion to their ECOstructure initiative.
The Independent Communications Authority has released new telecommunications regulations it hopes to have included in legislation. These feature proposals that ISPs still need licences, and that VANS get the right to conditionally resell bandwidth.
Unihold has announced its managed private network product, a range of infrastructure-related services.
Synergy Research Group says 3Com secured the number one market position for networked telephony system shipments for the first quarter of this year.
3Com has announced its 10/100Mbps 56K Mini PCI Adapter geared towards 3Com resellers and system integrators.