Africa Utilities Technology Council

Abstract: Utility Telecom and Information and Communication Technology needs are changing rapidly requiring the change in how we implement networks. Industry 4.0 applications will create significant increase in required speeds on utility networks. Transnet having a wide range of systems for Mission Critical Applications and Enterprise Network services requires a very high capacity, robust and scalable backbone network to ensure all the data capacity needs for the organization are catered for. A high capacity DWDM network has been seen as a critical enabler for Transnet to ensure sustainability of the business. 1. Background Since the early 1990s, telecommunications transmission networks especially in the utilities have been dominated by a technology called Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH). In optical transmission networks using SDH, the telecommunications data is transmitted between nodes...

03 April, 2019 /

Africa ranks the lowest in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) skills in the world, a distinction bestowed upon the continent in the annual ICT Development Index (IDI). The report goes on to highlight several other challenges related to exorbitant data costs and infrastructure development. But within these challenges lie great possibilities and room for ICT development on the Continent. AUTC spoke to the CEO and President of its parent body, the UTC, Joy Ditto about why African Utilities are primed to contribute to the growth potential in Africa through ICT development… Looking at ICT holistically, why is ICT important in how utilities function around the world? Information and communications technology (ICT) underpin electric reliability. As such, utilities have long deployed their own “private” communication networks because the...

03 April, 2019 /