Local electronics and communications group Tellumat is exiting the telecommunication industry following the sale of several Tellumat Integrated Solutions (TIS) lines of business to CK Solutions for an undisclosed amount.
CK Solutions is led by Mbusi Sibisi, as CEO in SA, and Dumisa Manana, as CEO for the rest of Africa.
Tellumat has transferred TIS managed services, mechanical products and kitting, to Andrew’s Kit, trading as CK Solutions, says Tellumat CEO Andrew Connold.
Tellumat was originally the South African subsidiary of a UK-based company called Plessey, but became autonomous in SA in the late 1980s. It was renamed Tellumat after some restructuring in 1998.
The company’s other lines of business include air traffic management, defence and security, as well as electronics manufacturing.
In a statement, Tellumat says managed services is involved in the identification of suitable sites for GSM high-site installations; the establishment of leases with landowners/municipalities; and the provision, reticulation, management and separate metering of telco operators’ electricity consumption on shared sites.
It adds that mechanical products offer low-profile GSM solutions and a range of low-, medium-, high- and ultra-high-security equipment cabinets for telco equipment, as well as a low energy, passive cooling solution for these cabinets.
Kitting provides kits of parts used in preventative maintenance (such as waterproofing of shelters, etc) and GSM infrastructure upgrades, says the company.
It notes the product line-up in the lines of business sold to CK Solutions include iconic units like the CK100 base station power manager and others.
“The CK100 is designed to prevent nuisance tripping of the main circuit breaker on electrically shared sites by start-up staggering and load rotation,” says Sibisi.
“After a power failure, there is normally a high starting current and demand by backup batteries needing to recharge. If the supply is insufficient to cater for the current demand, the circuit breaker will trip. The CK100 manages this problem by systematically connecting the power in rotation to the parties connected to the system.”
He adds that when electricity supply is connected, the CK100 will monitor consumption by each party during operation.
“Should there be a sudden current spike due to the simultaneous starting of some equipment of one or more of the connected parties, the system will rotate the connected parties, while those unconnected use backup battery power, to manage this demand,” says Sibisi.
Citing shareholder restructuring of the investment portfolio focus as the reason for exiting the telecoms industry, Connold says TIS’s customers will be well-served by CK Solutions – an established company with a long history of supplying local telecommunications networks and service companies with a variety of essential products.
CK Solutions is 100% black-owned, located in new premises in Midrand.
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