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InformatiqueAnalyse des donnéesd’intérêt maritime

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A note from the EditorIN THIS ISSUE of CommunicationsAfrica/Afrique, there is analysis of therelationships between satellite andsocial media. There are, also, insightsfrom WIOCC’s CEO, Chris Wood, on localaccess for enterprise connectivity. Thisissue also covers the data centreindustry, addressing the growth incloud-based services and effectivecabling infrastructure. The increasedadoption of TETRA is assessed, too.Broadcast stakeholders can read ourreview of NAB. All ICT operators cangain from learning about key players instandby power generation, F G Wilsonand Himoinsa. Lastly, this issue offersanalysis of financial technology.

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Une note du rédacteurDANS CE NUMÉRO deCommunications Africa/Afrique, il y aun article sur la connaissance de lasituation maritime, et de différentesagences maritimes nationales. Aussi,il y a un rapport du lancement d'unprojet national qui se traduira lasouveraineté de l’Etat tunisien dansle domaine de l'audiovisuel., avec ungrand nombre de téléspectateurs etune variété des contenus proposéspar les chaînes tunisiennes.

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Events 8

Agenda 10

Solutions 34

FEATURES

Satellite 18Social media and the satellite revolution, and which countries moved first for better connections

Submarine 19WIOCC CEO Chris Wood offers insights into the commercial considerations underpinning African access initiatives

Data 20The growth in cloud-based services and the consequences for traffic management; and what to do when selectingcabling infrastructure

TETRA 24Analysis of the increased adoption of secure radiocommunication technology in the Middle East and Africa

Broadcast 26The latest broadcast machines, devices, software and suppliers at NAB

Energy 31F G Wilson celebrates five decades of standby power production and distribution; and how Himoinsa 's range ofgensets for the telecoms industry have been making their mark in Africa

Commerce 33What ICT operators can do, and the technologies available, to prevent and manage fraud effectively and protect their customer base

ARTICLES

Informatique 23Des représentants de Maurice et des pays riverains de l’Océan indien ont pu développer leurs compétences enmatière de visualisation et d'analyse des données d’intérêt maritimes et partager leurs expériences

Transmission 30Le lancement d'un projet national qui se traduira la souveraineté de l’Etat tunisien dans le domaine de l'audiovisuel

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Telecom outsourcing services continue to grow on aglobal scaleACCORDING TO ANALYSIS by IHS Technology, the global telecomoutsourcing services market is projected to reach US$76bn by 2020,growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of two per cent,driven by mobile network outsourcing deals as more and more mobileoperators try to keep their operational expenditure (opex) under controlby removing non-core task and focusing on customers’ experience andinformation and communications technology (ICT) business, as well asnetwork transformation that requires a merger of IT and telecom networkteams; in 2015 service providers’ unabated need to outsource non-coretasks led global outsourcing services revenue to increase three per centin 2015 over the prior year, reaching US$69bn.

Airtel divests DRC telecoms tower assets to HeliosTowers AfricaTELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES PROVIDER Bharti Airtel and towerscompany Helios Towers Africa (HTA) have reached agreement on thedivestment of approximately 950 telecoms towers in the DemocraticRepublic of Congo (DRC) from Airtel to HTA, including towers currentlyunder construction in the DRC; Bharti Airtel executive chairman ChristianDe Faria said, “The agreement is in line with our stated philosophy ofdivesting passive infrastructure and promoting sharing of towers toenhance operational efficiencies that will further the growth of telecomservices.”

Eaton Towers improves business with AdaptiveInsights softwareINDEPENDENT TELECOM TOWER company Eaton Towers hasimplemented software developed by cloud corporate performancemanagement (CPM) specialist Adaptive Insights to consolidatefinancials across seven countries, transforming its financial reportingand driving business expansion; the software deployment enabledEaton Towers to accelerate its monthly reporting by 100 per cent andfacilitate its raise of US$350mn in equity funding in 2015, which wascritical to the company’s expansion from three to six markets in less thana year.

ITU discusses digital deliverables for future financialservicesINTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION (ITU) Focus Group onDigital Financial Services (FG DFS) met recently in Washington, DC, in theUSA, to discuss key elements of a global roadmap it is developing tohelp telecom and financial services regulators; Sacha Polverini,chairman of the FG DFS and senior programme officer of the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation Financial Services for the Poor (FSP)programme, said, “It is the first time ITU has partnered with internationalorganisations like the World Bank, CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist

the Poor), GSMA (Groupe Speciale Mobile Association), AFI (Alliance forFinancial Inclusion) and others to initiate a forum like this.”

French fintech company Lemon Way launches newsubsidiary in West AfricaPRESENT IN MALI since October 2014, working in partnership with theInternational Bank of Mali (IBM), offering mobile payment, deposit andwithdraw cash and money transfer services, French financial technologyfirm Lemon Way has launched Lemon Way Africa, a subsidiary based inDakar, Senegal; the CEO of the new subsidiary, Stéphane Drai, who is aspecialist in African payments infrastructure, said, “Lemon Way Africaaims to distribute its products to all populations in order to promotebanking inclusion as sought in the continent.”

NEC supplies iPASOLINK E-band microwave radios toOrange EgyptTECHNOLOGY COMPANY NEC Corporation has been selected by OrangeEgypt to provide iPASOLINK EX, its outdoor, integrated, ultracompactmicrowave radio system supporting 7080 GHz band communications (E-band), initially live with a group of 60 links; “By using NEC’s iPASOLINKEX, we will be able to provide a different experience for our users over theLTE network, with faster access and higher reliability,” said HishamSiblini, chief technology officer, Orange Egypt.

NCC consults CTO on satellite communicationsregulationsSENIOR OFFICERS FROM the Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC) attended a workshop on Satellite Communications Regulationsrecently at the headquarters of the CommonwealthTelecommunications Organisation (CTO) in London, in the UK; SholaTaylor, Secretary-General of the CTO, who moderated the workshop,commented, “We are pleased to have the opportunity to assist ourNigerian colleagues in their role in regulating satellite communicationsin Nigeria and look forward to working with them further on this in thefuture.”

MTN bundles World Panel'sSunStream to maintain the mobilepower lifelineIN SOUTH AFRICA, MTN has introduced apromotional package featuring the WorldPanel SunStream, which allows users tostream electricity from the sun directlyinto their mobile devices; according toHennie Botha, World Panel’smanaging director for South Africa,SunStream is designed for"someone who views their mobiledevice as a lifeline, but lacks thepower to keep it charged”.

SES invests in commitment tocontrolling interest in O3b NetworksXSATELLITE OPERATOR SES has increased its interest in O3b Networksto 50.5 per cent, so taking a controlling share in the company, andenabling SES to augment differentiated capabilities in enterprise,mobility and governmental sectors by adding O3b’s suite of productsand customers; Karim Michel Sabbagh, SES president and CEO,commented, “The move to take control of O3b is a game-changingacquisition and a major step in the execution of SES’s differentiatedstrategy, and complements SES’s growth strategy.”

MTN South Africa ofers a promotional package featuring World Panel’s SunStream

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Un forum africain sur le peering et l’interconnexion,à Dar es SalaamLE SEPTIÈME FORUM africain sur le peering et l’interconnexion (AfPIF)se déroulera sur une période de 3 jours du 30 Août au 1er Septembre,2016 à Dar es Salaam, Tanzanie; étant un forum multi-acteurs, AfPIFcherchera à favoriser les possibilités d'interconnexion transfrontalièresen s'assurant que les principaux acteurs – les fournisseursd’infrastructure, les prestataires de services, les IXP, les régulateurs, lesinstitutions financières internationales et les décideurs sont présents àcet événement.

Autour de la future feuille de route pour les servicesfinanciers numériquesLE GROUPE SPÉCIALISÉ sur lesservices financiers numériques (FGDFS) de l'Union internationale destélécommunications (UIT) s'estréuni à Washington DC pourdiscuter des éléments clés d'unefeuille de route qu'il est en traind'élaborer à l'échelle mondiale pouraider les régulateurs et lesopérateurs de télécommunicationet de services financiers à utiliserles technologies numériquesmobiles afin de remédier auxproblèmes de l'exclusionfinancière; Sacha Polverini,Président du Groupe spécialisé etprincipal responsable duprogramme "Financial Services forthe Poor" (Services financiers pourles pauvres) de la Fondation Bill & Melinda Gates, a déclaré: "Pour lapremière fois, l'UIT s'associe à des organisations internationales commela Banque mondiale, le CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor),la GSMA (Groupe Spécial Mobile Association), l'AFI (Alliance forFinancial Inclusion) et d'autres entités, pour créer une instance de cetype."

Sofrecom promeut l’égalité des chances, reçoit leLabel Diversité AFNORFILIALE D’ORANGE, SOFRECOM reçoit le Label Diversité AFNOR lorsd’une cérémonie organisée au Ministère du Travail, de l’Emploi, de laFormation professionnelle et du Dialogue social en présence de JacquesMoulin, Directeur Général de Sofrecom, Abdessamad Bouzoubaa,Directeur RSE de Sofrecom, Christine Albanel, Directrice Exécutive RSE,Diversité, Partenariats et Solidarité d’Orange et Laurent Depond,Directeur de la Diversité d’Orange; comme le souligne Jacques Moulin,Directeur Général de Sofrecom, « Par ce label, nous démontrons quel’ensemble des femmes et des hommes du Groupe Sofrecom sontporteurs des valeurs de respect des différences culturelles, en totalecohérence avec le contexte international de notre activité ».

Une solution de e-shopping innovante en Afrique, deCFAOAVEC AFRICASHOP, QUI entend proposer à la clientèle africaine un accèsdirect et simplifié aux plus grandes marques internationales, CFAO offree-commerce innovante en Afrique, à la fois lorsque le e-commerce enAfrique représentait 2% des opérations de commerce électronique dansle monde, soit 8 milliards de dollars; Olivier Nguyen-Khac, Directeurgénéral d’Africashop a dit : « Les e-consommateurs en Afrique avaientjusqu’à présent accès à une offre limitée due à la complexité pour lessites français et européens de livrer leurs produits jusqu’au domicile duclient en Afrique. »

IBM met à disposition l’informatique quantique sur leCloud IBM pour accélérer l’innovationUNE INITIATIVE MAJEURE au sein de l’IBM Research Frontiers Institute, laplate-forme d’informatique quantique d'IBM fonctionne de façonfondamentalement différente des ordinateurs actuels, effectue certainscalculs beaucoup plus rapidement que ce qui est possible avec desordinateurs classiques; maintenante, IBM Research donne pour lapremière fois au public un accès à l’informatique quantique, avec lapossibilité d’accéder et de conduire des expériences sur le processeurquantique d’IBM.

Orange présent des acteurs de la transformationdigitale à VivatechnologyVIVATECHNOLOGY PARIS 2016 réunit 5 000 start-up pour créer unemultitude d’opportunités de collaboration entre start-up, entreprises,dirigeants, investisseurs, universitaires et leaders d’opinion du mondeentier; Orange soutient les start-up en leur fournissant unaccompagnement (via le réseau d’accélérateurs Orange Fab oud’incubateurs que nous soutenons en Afrique), une aide matérielle (viala mise à disposition d’API auprès de la communauté desdéveloppeurs), et financière (via Orange Digital Investment).

OSN s'allie à Eutelsat pour l’HD et à l'Ultra HD auMoyen-Orient et en Afrique du NordL’OPÉRATEUR DE TÉLÉVISION payante au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique duNord, OSN accroît ses capacités sur le puissant satellite 8 West Bexploité par Eutelsat Communications; Mark Billinge, Directeurtechnique d'OSN, a déclaré : « L'arrivée de ces nouvelles capacités nouspermettra d'offrir à nos téléspectateurs une qualité d'imageexceptionnelle. »

Orange conclut l’acquisition de l'opérateur mobileTigo en République démocratique du CongoMOINS DE TROIS mois après a signé un accord avec le groupe Millicom,pour l’acquisition de 100 % de l’opérateur mobile Tigo en Républiquedémocratique du Congo (RDC); le marché mobile en RDC estactuellement le plus grand marché mobile d’Afrique Centrale etd’Afrique de l’Ouest, après le Nigeria, avec plus de 80 millionsd’habitants et un taux de pénétration mobile relativement faible de 50 %de la population.

Un colloque pour se pencher sur une utilisation desservices par satellite exempte de brouillageLES PARTICIPANTS AU Colloque international de l'UIT sur lestélécommunications par satellite analyseront les mesures permettantd'éviter les brouillages des systèmes de télécommunications parsatellite; des experts du monde entier examineront les technologiespermettant de détecter, d'identifier, de localiser et d'atténuer lesbrouillages préjudiciables.


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JUNE/JUIN31 May-2 Jun Critical Communications World Amsterdam, The Netherlands criticalcommunicationsworld.com

31 May-2 Jun DISCOP Africa Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire discopafrica.com

31 May-2 Jun SITIC Africa Tunis, Tunisia www.siticafrica.com

4-10 InfoComm Las Vegas, USA www.infocommshow.org

8-9 West Africa Com Dakar, Senegal www.comworldseries.com

13-15 Global Media Forum Bonn, Germany www.dw.com

14 MEDIA-TECH Hamburg, Germany www.media-tech.net

14-16 Commonwealth ICT Ministers Forum London, UK www.cto.int

20-21 Digital Marketing World Forum London, UK www.digitalmarketing-conference.com

21-22 Cloud World Forum London, UK cloudanddevopsworld.com

22-24 Convergence World Africa Nairobi, Kenya www.convergenceafricaworld.com

JULY/JUILLET6-7 MVNOs Industry Summit Africa Johannesburg, South Africa africa.mvnoindustrysummit.com

AUGUST/AOÛT30 Aug-1 Sep African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AFPIF) Dar es Salaam, Tanzania www.internetsociety.org

2-4 Africa Telecoms Fraud, Revenue Assurance & Risk Management Forum Dar es Salaam, Tanzania www.fbrevents.com

16-17 Telecoms Big Data Analytics and Customer Experience Summit Dubai, UAE www.fbrevents.com

SEPTEMBER/SEPTEMBRE8-12 IBC Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.ibc.org

21-22 Nigeria Com Lagos, Nigeria www.comworldseries.com

Events/Événements 2016


THE LATEST EDITION of ITU’s annualglobal ICT regulatory report, Trends inTelecommunication Reform 2016,charts and analyses the challengesand opportunities facing today’s ICTregulators as services proliferate,platforms converge and networkoperators ready their infrastructurefor the next round of data-intensivetechnologies, from 5G mobile to theInternet of Things (IoT).

The annual Trends inTelecommunication Reformpublications are a key part of thedialogue with the world's informationand communications technology (ICT)policy-makers and regulators in anincreasingly converged digitalenvironment. Trends inTelecommunication Reform 2016brings together insights from a broadrange of leading global experts to helpregulators, ICT analysts and techjournalists gain a deeperunderstanding of the issues facing anincreasingly broad array of ICT players– and consumers.

Digital challenges andopportunitesNew ICT goods and services arebringing with them enormous socialand economic disruption. But whilethere are many benefits to be reaped,the report highlights regulatorychallenges that must be addressed topreserve the ‘level playing field’

considered essential to competitionand innovation. With the theme of‘exploring regulatory incentives toachieve digital opportunities’, thereport emphasises the growingimportance of flexible, light-touch,technology-neutral regulatoryprinciples which stimulate marketgrowth while protecting the rights ofconsumers and encouraging newentrants.

“Information and communicationtechnologies are now all-pervasive andwill be central to helping the worldmeet all 17 Sustainable DevelopmentGoals. The role of ICT regulators increating an enabling environment forICT growth and development has neverbeen more critical,” said Houlin Zhao,ITU Secretary-General. “ITU’s annualTrends in Telecommunication Reformreport supports regulators around theworld to put the right policies in placefor their national markets.”

“To realise the full potential of thedigital economy, policy-makers and

regulators have a key role to play inbuilding policy and regulatoryenvironments in which newtechnologies can flourish,” saidBrahima Sanou, Director of ITU’sTelecommunication DevelopmentBureau. “This 16th annual edition ofTrends in Telecommunication Reformfocuses on regulatory incentives toachieve digital opportunities which Ibelieve upholds the ultimate goal ofregulators: serving consumers.”

ITU reports on trends in IoT, interoperability, and broadband roll-out

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EGATEL, A SPANISH company specialised in research,development and manufacture of RF systemsdesigned to broadcast analogue and digital TVsignals, has developed African business as astrategic priority, working in several countries whichare implementing digital TV (DVB-T/T2) networks.After an initial project in Morocco with SNRT(Société Nationale de Radiodiffusion et deTélévision), Egatel is now working in Algeria for ioncontracts awarded for the supply and installation ofsolutions including 600W, 300W and 50W digitaltransmitters and auxiliary equipment.In Tanzania and Kenya, Egatel has supplied its high-efficiency digital transmitters as part of importantturnkey projects - including antenna systems, filtersor combiners, electrical protections, etc.Egatel is currently working with ongoing installationsin Tanzania, and is on working on fresh projects inKenya. The company is deploying the TV network inTanzania for Sahara Media Group, a private nationalchannel and operator. It is also rolling out a TVnetwork for APD in Kenya, a Spanish company actingas main contractor of KBC (Kenyan BroadcastingCorporation), in a large project involving 10 newsites.

Egatel at NABIn terms of its product portfolio, Egatel has recentlyimproved energy efficiency throughout its RF powerrange, with an innovative design with the latestsignal processing technology. The company

demonstrated its innovations at the 2016 NAB Showin April in Las Vegas, USA, presenting in particular itsnew Low Power TV Transmitters and Gapfillers series.The TUWH1000 and RUWH1000 families have acompact design reaching output powers up to 115Wrms in a single rack unit and facilitating operatorsinstallation, operation and maintenance tasks.With this launch, the company extends the HighEnergy Efficiency concept over the whole RF powerrange, by applying Wideband Doherty Technology to

TV Transmitters and Gapfillers that will be used in thelatter stages of TV network coverage.“They offer an unbeatable cost - performance(CAPEX/OPEX) ratio. No other broadcastmanufacturer has assumed this commitment infavour of energy efficiency applied to energy andspace savings,” said José Mariño, director of salesand marketing at Egatel. “TV channels need easyways of reducing expensive maintenance costs andseek reliable and high-quality systems.”


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INTERNATIONAL INTERNET EXCHANGEFrance-IX has activated itsMarketplace, where peering memberscan buy any IP-centric service over itsIXP platform. This buying model enablesnew services to be provisioned quicklyand easily over private circuits setupover the platform, and also deliverssignificant cost efficiencies to buyer-members. France-IX is the first IXP tooffer anti DDoS solution through itsMarketplace along with other servicesincluding IP transit.

"The role of IXPs is changing,especially for those which are international exchangepoints like France-IX," said Franck Simon, managing directorat France-IX. "IXPs used to provide purely a technicalplatform for carriers, ISPs and CDNs to peer, meaninginterconnecting their networks and exchanging their owntraffic. But now, with such a large and diversifiedmembership including a growing segment of enterprises,we saw the opportunity to extend from simple peering tofacilitating a marketplace where our members can buy theservices they need from our partners. By including servicessuch as anti-DDoS, we are going beyond other IXPs’offerings and we are proud to be an innovator in theevolution of the IXP."

France-IX members will benefit fromcost-efficiencies when they buy servicesthrough the marketplace. Costoptimisation is created throughseamless provision of the service theybuy and how simple it is; membersalready have a port in place and there isno need for them to order a new cross-connect, so all they have to do ismanage their existing port. Whenmembers use their ports for peeringonly, there is usually some unusedcapacity on them that could be partlyfilled by subscribing to additional

services and so optimising the cost of the peering port.Further cost benefits are gained from multiple sellers of thesame service offering competitive pricing.

The first France-IX Marketplace seller is OrangeInternational Carriers, one of the world’s leadingwholesale providers, which is offering its comprehensiveportfolio of innovative and flexible solution to France-IX’operators, international carriers and OTT peering members.

"Network operators who peer at the France-IX can nowbenefit from all these Orange services at the best wholesaleprices along with quick and seamless service delivery byFrance-IX," said Pierre-Louis de Guillebon, managingdirector at Orange International Carriers.

France-IX activates marketplace for IP-centric services

THE MINISTRY OF Interior ofEgypt has commissioned JRM forCommunications, NEC’s businesspartner in Egypt, to provide acomplete new communicationsinfrastructure in replacement of itsexisting PBX network. This large-scale project involves the deliveryand installation of 12 UNIVERGESV9500 communication servers and20 SV9100 communication servers.In addition, 149 Remote UG50’s arepart of this large network. JRM wasable to land this project due to itsdedicated service and support withthe Ministry of Interior of Egypt forover 15 years and the company’sdedicated commitment to NEC’swide range of IT & Communicationsolutions.

“We are extremely pleased towin this big project that extendsthe close relationship with ourappreciated customer the Ministryof Interior,” said Reda Kamal, CEOat JRM for Communications.

JRM and NEC work onPBX for Egypt


Strategic business with African broadcasters for Egatel

Egatel is supplying and installing equipment in Algeria for TDA

France-IX serves the Middle East andAfrica from its base in Marseille


PREFABRICATED DATA CENTRE specialist Flexenclosure has completed constructionof a new data, communications and colocation centre for Millicom, which operatesas the Tigo brand across Africa and Latin America.

The facility, a US$6mn investment, is a 374m2 combined communications and datacentre for both telecommunications and data colocation services. Built in the Chadiancapital N’Djamena, the new technical facility is a full turnkey eCentre implementation.eCentre by Flexenclosure is a custom-designed, prefabricated modular data centrebuilding that is fast to deploy, energy efficient and easy to expand.

This is the first prefabricated data centre ever to be built in Chad and Flexenclosurehas taken on complete turnkey responsibility for delivery of the entire project,including the eCentre building itself and all the site infrastructure around it.

The facility will provide for all Tigo Chad’s data requirements and will support anIT power load of 400kW. The colocation white space area is fully open with nopillars, thus maximising Millicom’s flexibility to configure the space toaccommodate privately hosted tenants of different sizes. And as demand grows,the building itself can also be expanded to double its initial capacity in such a waythat future expansion work will not impact on-going operations.

To ensure the highestsecurity procedures arefollowed, the facility has astrict on demand accessprotocol. It is fully protectedwith 24/7 CCTV, biometricaccess and a fully automatedintelligent system capable ofautomatically warning staffof any imminent issues.


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GLOBAL TELECOM IT solutions provider Tecnotree has beenselected by mobile network operator EMTEL Mauritius(part of the Airtel group), to expand its call completion andMDX platform - enabling the rapid roll out of new messagingand voice services for its subscribers. Tecnotree will helpEMTEL to enhance its digital strategy by suppling a contentmanagement and service delivery platform and callcompletion solution that enables hardware and networkmodernisation, all the while reducing the company’soperational expenditure (OPEX) for provisioning andmaintenance.As a result of the agreement, EMTEL will deliver an improvedcustomer experience to its mobile subscribers throughenhanced reachability and multi-channel messagingservices. Through Tecnotree’s intelligent ContentManagement and Service Delivery platform, EMTEL’s legacyvoicemail system will be upgraded to the latest sessioninitiation protocol (SIP) based call completion stack, withina virtualised environment.“At Tecnotree, powering better experiences for ourcustomers in the rapidly changing digital marketplace isalways a high priority,” said Padma Ravichander, CEO,Tecnotree.“We’re delighted to be strengthening our relationship withEMTEL by offering customers enhanced multiple messagingservices, through call completion, to achieve “truereachability.”A particularly interesting feature of the EMTEL deploymentis Tecnotree’s Agility Call Completion suite.Call Completion hosts an operator’s entire reachability andmessaging services and can generate revenue even whencustomers have their mobile turned off.

By enabling default reachability services such as Missed CallNotification (MCN) and Notify Me, Call Completion helpssubscribers to be available 100 per cent of their time.With permanent voicemail box, customers receive not onlyvoice, but also fax and video messages. Visual Voicemail(VVM) further enhances the operator’s messaging offeringby sychronising messages and mailbox status, making themavailable through an easy-to-use mobile application.Moreover, a temporary and personal voicemail box iscreated on demand only and when a message is received.The Tecnotree Agility Suite, of which Call Completion is acomponent, offers a full complement of products andsolutions that meet the needs of diverse communicationsservice providers. Tecnotree offers a number of flexiblechoices; meaning an operator can deploy in-house completeintegrated systems or standalone products in phases.Previous African deployments have included Unitel Angola,which serves over seven million mobile subscribers in itsGSM, 3G and 4G/LTE network, covering 90 per cent ofAngola’s population.The Angolan deployment was completed in response toongoing increasing demand for voice, content andapplication services, with internet technologies paving theway to new service offerings and revenue streams for theoperator. Tecnotree’s full-IP, redundant and expandablearchitecture delivered a modern call completion solutionthat inherently supports newer services such as VisualVoicemail.Mr Amilcar Safeca, Unitel CTO, explained, “Tecnotree’sreferences, commitment and agility to meet our current andfuture needs were the key criteria when deciding to over toTecnotree’s solution.”

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EMTEL Mauritius enhance its digital strategy with Tecnotree

THE INTERNET SOCIETY has called for the adoption of policies andframeworks that expand access and create greater demand for theInternet during the 4th annual Africa Internet Summit (AIS) inGaborone, Botswana. Urging policymakers to grasp the opportunityoffered by the expansion and growth of the Internet across thecontinent, the Internet Society will advocate for greater collaborationby all Internet decision-makers in creating an accessible, trustedInternet that benefits all Africans.

“Africa sits at a tipping point for Internet expansion and thecontinent is poised to help drive growth of the global Internet. But tomake the opportunities for social and economic gains a reality, it isparamount that the right policies are in place,” explained DawitBekele, Africa regional bureau director for the Internet Society.“Policymakers have a critical role to play in creating an environmentthat enables investment in Internet infrastructure and ensures thatthe Internet is used to address Africa’s development challenges.”

The Internet Society also spotlighted digital trailblazers during a“Connected Women in Africa” panel session. The session exploredhow to get more women involved in developing and using Internettechnology across Africa, as well as highlighting women who arealready bringing about significant change through their work with theInternet. Kathy Brown, president and CEO of the Internet Society, leda panel discussion that featured women voices including Agang KDitlhogo, co-founder of The Clicking Generation, and DorcasMuthoni, a computer scientist from Kenya who founded a softwarecompany that is now a leading e-Government and business softwareservices firm in East Africa.

INDEPENDENT AFRICAN TOWERcompany Eaton Towers Group hassigned a definitive agreement tosell its South African towers to ATCSouth Africa for an undisclosedsum.

Terry Rhodes, CEO of EatonTowers said, “The successfulexecution of our Build-to-Suitstrategy over the last few years hasresulted in a unique portfolio ofsome 300 towers serving some 600tenants across South Africa. Wehave built a focused and profitablebusiness and are very pleased thatATC South Africa, as the leadingindependent tower operator inSouth Africa, has agreed that ourhigh quality towers make a natural‘win-win’ fit with their company.

“The sale, which representsabout five per cent of Eaton Towers’total business, will allow us toinvest further in the countrieswhere Eaton Towers are marketleaders and expand into newmarkets in Africa.”

The South African market ofsome 30,000 towers is stilldominated by the telecoms andbroadcast organisations, who ownover 90% of the towers.

Eaton sells to ATC

Flexenclosure builds data centre in Chad African policymakers urged to meet Internet demand



SECURE IDENTITY SOLUTIONS group HID Globalannounced at ID4Africa, held recently in KigaliRwanda, that it is working with Nigeriantechnology company Media ConceptsInternational Limited to deploy mobile IDs onNigerian citizens’ smartphones using the newHID goID platform. The Nigerian Police ismoving from paper documentations ofvehicular records to e-documentations in orderto create and maintain a central database for allvehicles using uniquely encoded and machine-readable smart cards along with the new andinnovative mobile IDs.

Media Concepts International Limited has infact partnered with HID Global to addrescomplex government-to-citizen identificationprogrammes throughout Africa. However, inNigeria, mobile IDs will be issued by thenation’s police force through the PoliceBiometric Central Motor Registry (BCMR)vehicle registration card programme, whichprovides real-time access to vehicle/vehicleowner information via credentials and mobilereaders powered by Seos technology suppliedby HID Global. The Nigerian Police BCMR is abiometrically-enabled, real-time informationsystem designed to enhance the reliability andeffectiveness of policing.

“The Nigerian Police are pioneers in first-class global policing, leading the way in Africain the adoption of mobile IDs and creating adifferentiated reputation for the police as wellas the country as a whole,” said Babatope MAgbeyo, CEO of Media Concepts InternationalLimited.

“Over the years, the Nigerian Police havecontinually invested in e-policing technology,especially with the Police BCMR in line with theglobal security trend. We are proud to helpAfrica set a new standard for IDs onsmartphones that countries around the worldcelebrate and emulate.”

The Nigerian police are launching theprogramme to offer citizens a secure andconvenient mobile ID option. Citizens can applyfor a mobile ID at the time of vehicleregistration. Once registration is complete,issuance of the mobile ID to a citizen’ssmartphone is almost instant, which bridgesthe gap between registration and receipt of thephysical card.

The Nigerian Police will be issuedsmartphones as mobile readers to verify avehicle owner’s ID and at the same time gainreal-time access to reliable accident, crime orinsurance information on the vehicle. The

readers will sit in a specially designed cradle toaccommodate the citizen’s biometrics storedon the card or mobile ID. Media ConceptsInternational Limited and HID Global designedthe programme so that this new offering wouldbe integrated directly into Nigeria’s currentenrollment process, allowing a seamlessmigration to mobile IDs.

The new BCMR mobile IDs use the HID goIDplatform, which delivers the secureinfrastructure to allow citizen IDs to be safelyprovisioned to and authenticated on asmartphone. Rapid issuance enables thecitizen to take instant possession of theirvehicle registration and is particularlyconvenient if the citizen has more than onevehicle, as multiple IDs can be carried togetheron one smartphone.

The goID platform enables instant over-the-air credential provisioning and streamlinedaccess to cloud-based government informationservices.

All transactions related to issuing, managingand presenting mobile IDs using smartphonesare secure and trustworthy with goID, ensuringthat transactions are conducted in a closed-circuit environment protected by end-to-endencryption.


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INCUBATED BY MAHINDRAComviva, the Nigerianmusic streaming appMooditt has released itslatest version withimproved features. The newMooditt 2.0 music appcomes with a visuallypleasing and highly fluiduser interface (UI) but oneof the app’s key offering isits first-of-its-kind musiccataloguing by moods. Thisunique dashboard featurewas designed especially forNigerians who have aneclectic taste in music including HipHop, Highlife, R&B as well as religiousmusic depending on their mood at anygiven point of time. Mooditt 2.0 musicapp’s improved algorithm classifiessongs on the basis of various moodselections which makes it easy for theusers to browse through Mooditt’scontent repository and enjoy songs oftheir favourite artists blending withtheir mood at any given time.Mooditt is a high-quality multi-mediamobile application streaming servicewith a rich suite of local catalogue-based digital music content. The app

has recorded over 500,000music downloads and wasranked No.1 music app inGoogle Play Store for eightmonths in a row. It hasreported two million uniquesessions, 32mn page views,2.5mn songs streamed withan average seven minutesspent per Mooditt app user.The application is able todynamically change thestreaming quality of thesong depending on thenetwork bandwidth availableto ensure uninterrupted and

seamless music experience to theconsumers. The service allows usersto create and share playlist and alsodownload songs and ringtones forlistening offline, wirelessly. The appoffers the user the ability to searchdirectly for tracks, artists, albums andbrowse music by genres.Sunil Maharaj Kumar, head of D2Cbusiness at Mooditt, said, “Theexpansion of regional music brandsand increase in smartphone user-basehas been the key growth drivers fordigital music in Nigeria, increasing itsconsumption exponentially.”

Mooditt updates app for Nigeria’s music market

SATELLITE OPERATOR SES has signed a satellite broadband deal withFacebook to provide high-speed broadband connectivity services to Sub-Saharan Africa. This agreement supports Facebook’s Express Wi-Fiprogramme, which is part of the social media network’s Internet.orginitiative to connect the world.

Facebook, the world’s largest social media network, will deliver highspeed broadband connectivity using three SES satellites - Astra 2G, Astra3B and Astra 4A. In addition, SES is providing Facebook with customisedSES Enterprise+ broadband services.

SES designed a highly tailored service utilising its satellite, datacentre and implementation services with integrated features such assecurity, protocol enhancement, and hosting. The solution includes GilatSatellite Networks’ X-Architecture platform that will enable Facebook’slocal African partners to deliver internet services to underconnected andunconnected communities using Facebook’s Express Wi-Fi accessproduct.

"We are excited about the opportunity to partner with SES andFacebook on this worthy initiative to bridge the digital divide,” said RonLevin, director strategic accounts at Gilat. “The turn-key solutionprovided to Facebook is based on expanding SES base with Gilat's mostadvanced X-Architecture for SkyEdge II-c platform to deliver a scalableand optimised satellite-enabled broadband solution in Africa."

Ferdinand Kayser, chief commercial officer of SES, said, “Our newdata network, SES Plus, highlights the strengths of SES as a networkoperator. We pride ourselves on working with our customers to designand deliver customised and differentiated products that enable them toexcel in their markets. An agreement such as this with Facebook, wherewe designed a whole new customisable, flexible and scalable solution,is another step SES has taken to satisfy the fast expanding broadbandconnectivity market in Africa.”

Nigerian police use new mobile technology to enhance security

Internet.org uses SES’ customised broadbandplatform and services to connect


The success ofMooditt as acontent platformreveals a growingsub-culture ofcontentconsumption overmobile in Nigeria



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LA DERNIÈRE ÉDITION du rapportannuel de l'UIT sur l'évolution de laréglementation des TIC dans lemonde Tendances des réformesdans les télécommunications 2016décrit et analyse les problèmesque rencontrent actuellement lesrégulateurs du secteur des TIC,mais aussi les perspectives quis'ouvrent à eux, à l'heure de laprolifération des services et de laconvergence des plates formes et au moment où lesopérateurs de réseau préparent leurs infrastructuresen vue de l'arrivée prochaine de technologiesfortement consommatrices de données, qu'il s'agissede la 5G mobile ou de l'Internet des objets (IoT).

L'édition 2016 de cette publication de l'UITprésente les vues d'un grand nombre d'éminentsexperts qui aideront les régulateurs, les analystes dusecteur des TIC et les journalistes techniques. Lacommercialisation de nouveaux biens et services TICentraîne de profonds bouleversements socio-économiques. Même si de nombreux avantages sontà en attendre, selon le rapport, un certain nombre deproblèmes restent à résoudre pour préserver"l'égalité des chances pour tous", considérée comme

essentielle pour la concurrence etl'innovation. Ce rapport, dont lethème est "Mesures d'incitationréglementaires visant à concrétiserle potentiel du numérique",souligne qu'il importe, plus quejamais, d'avoir une réglementationsouple, par petites touches et neprivilégiant aucune technologie,qui stimule la croissance dumarché tout en protégeant les

droits du consommateur et encourageant l'arrivée surle marché de nouveaux concurrents.

"Pour concrétiser toutes les potentialités del'économie numérique, les décideurs et lesrégulateurs ont un rôle fondamental à jouer dans lacréation d'environnements politiques etréglementaires favorables à l'essor des nouvellestechnologies. Cette 16ème édition des Tendances desréformes dans les télécommunications est centréesur les mesures d'incitation réglementaires visant àconcrétiser le potentiel du numérique, ce qui, à monavis, est conforme au but ultime des régulateurs, quiest de servir les consommateurs", a affirmé BrahimaSanou, Directeur du Bureau de développement destélécommunications de l'UIT.

OPÉRATEUR DE SATELLITESSES a conclu avec Facebookun accord pour du haut débitpar satellite afin de fournirdes services de connectivité àhaute vitesse et à large bandeen Afrique sub-saharienne.Cet accord soutiendra leprogramme Express Wi-Fi deFacebook, qui fait partie deson initiative Internet.orgvisant à connecter le monde.

Facebook fournira uneconnectivité à haute vitesseet à large bande en utilisanttrois des satellites de SES :Astra 2G, Astra 3B et Astra 4A.

« SES dispose dessolutions et des satellites enmesure de satisfaire lademande de Facebook depermettre et fournir uneconnectivité à large bandepour Express Wi-Fi », a affirmé Ferdinand Kayser,CCO chez SES.

SES et l’initiativeInternet.org


De l'Internet des objets et des réformes dans lestélécommunications

Brahima Sanou, Directeur du Bureau dedéveloppement des télécommunicationsde l'UIT (Photo: ITU/P Woods)


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ACCORDING TO RESEARCH published by Dimension Data, in the 19th edition ofits annual Global Contact Centre Benchmarking Report, organisations areunclear about who owns, oversees, and manages the digital channels in theircontact centres. That’s because there’s a lack of management focus whichimpacts the effectiveness of the design of their digital solutions, and byconsequence, how customers engage with their businesses. This year, 1,320organisations across 14 industry verticals in 81 countries in Asia-Pacific,

Australia, the Americas, Middle East & Africa, and Europe contributed to theresearch.

“While telephone interactions in the contact centre are managed, tracked, andquality controlled, the same performance rigour isn’t always applied to digitalchannels,” explained Rob Allman, Dimension Data’s group principal director,customer experience and collaboration. “This can lead to an inconsistent anddegraded customer experience across a brand or services company.”

Dimension Data says digital customer experience needs more development


SOCIÉTÉ ESPAGNOLE SPÉCIALISÉE dans laconception, le développement et la fabrication desystèmes RF conçus pour diffuser des signaux TVanalogiques et numériques, Egatel possède unestratégie prioritaire en Afrique, en travaillant dansplusieurs pays mettant en place leurs réseauxtélévisés numériques (DVB-T/T2).

Après une première expérience au Maroc avec laSNRT (Société nationale de Radiodiffusion et deTélévision), Egatel travaille maintenant en Algériepour TDA (Télédiffusion d'Algérie) avec la fournitureet l'installation des deux projets attribués, quicomportent des transmetteurs numériques de 600W, 300 W et 50 W ainsi que des équipementsauxiliaires.

En Tanzanie et au Kenya, Egatel a fourni sestransmetteurs numériques à rendement élevécomme éléments de projets clef en main,comprenant aussi des systèmes d'antennes, desfiltres ou des combineurs, des protectionsélectriques, etc., et elle travaille avec lesinstallations en cours dans le premier cas et elledébute les travaux dans le second cas.

Egatel est en train de déployer un réseau TV enTanzanie pour Sahara Media Group, une chaînenationale privée et un opérateur, ainsi que pour APDau Kenya, une société espagnole agissant commemaître d'œuvre principal de KBC (KenyanBroadcasting Corporation) dans un grand projetcomportant 10 nouveaux sites.

La stratégie numérique de l’Egatel en Afrique

L'OPÉRATEURS DETÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS Orangea annoncé sa prise departicipation dans AfricaInternet Group pour unmontant de 75 millions d’euros,aux côtés d’Axa, GoldmanSachs et des investisseurshistoriques, MTN Group,Millicom et Rocket Internet. Il ya aussi un ensemble departenariats stratégiques entreles filiales des deux groupes,Avec Orange, Jumia offre lapossibilité aux entreprises decommercialiser leurs produits etservices sur internet auprès dela classe moyenne africaineémergente. Les autres servicesproposés par Africa InternetGroup comprennent notammentune place de marché e-commerce (Kaymu), un site delivraison de nourriture(Hellofood), d’hôtellerie(Jovago) et des sites de petitesannonces généralistes(Vendito), immobilières(Lamudi), d’emploi (Everjobs) etde véhicules (Carmudi).

Orange investit dansAfrica Internet Group

L'usine d'Egatel lorsd'un FAT avec TD


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QUOTES

“The ultimateaim must be todeliver a

compellingcustomerexperience thatseamlessly blendsthe digital and thephysical worlds, butsuccess in thisregard will onlycome with a wholenew level ofenterprise-widecollaboration that encompasses the entireCxO value chain.”

- Jyoti Lalchandanivice president/regional managing director forthe Middle East, Africa, and Turkey,International Data Corporation (IDC)

“From providing the world with globalbroadband and in-flight entertainmentto the delivery of ultra HD services,

satellites continue to feed the worldwidethirst to be connected, and satellitecompanies continue to deliver ground-breaking new services designed to furtherconnect the world for decades to come.”

- Tom Strouppresident, Satellite Industry Association (SIA)

“A holistic digital transformationstrategy, which considers the digitalworkforce along with the business

model, process and customer channeldimensions, will be imperative fororganisations wishing to remain relevant inthe next 10 years.”

- Wayne Houghtondirector of growth implementation solutions,Frost & Sullivan Africa

“With continued infrastructural growthand a vast landmass, the marketpotential for satellite and GSM-based

communication technology in Africa isextremely large.”

- Kevin Eborallchairman, Skygistics

“Distributing reliable yet cost-effectivepower to IT equipment is of upmostimportance to network and data

centre managers.”

- Alberto Zucchinalidata centre solutions and services manager,Siemon EMEA

“We, the ICT stakeholders, need towork collectively and collaborativelyto ensure that the benefits of ICTs are

maximised and equitably distributed.”

- Shola Taylorsecretary-general, CommonwealthTelecommunications Organisation (CTO)

“As organisations evaluate their cloudoptions, they should assess avendor’s security certifications, access

management controls, encryption, andintrusion testing protocols.”

- Arthur Goldstuckmanaging director, World Wide Worx

“Making adequate use of both licensedand unlicensed spectrum bands isessential to meet data demand and

provide end users with the best possiblemobile experience.”

- Neville Meijersvice president of small cells, QualcommTechnologies

Jyoti Lalchandani, group vice president &regional MD, Middle East, Turkey &Africa, International Data Corporation(IDC)

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The continent is on the verge of a satellite revolution, according to experts, and somecountries have already started prepping for launches

How Facebook will use spaceto connect African communities

SATELLITE Media

IF ALL GOES according to the plan, the launch in August 2016 ofthe AMOS-6 communications satellite aboard the SpaceX Falcon9 rocket could be a major milestone in Africa’s satellitetelecommunication by bringing up to two million rural African

subscribers online. Last October, the Facebook and the French satellite company Eutelsat

entered into an initiative designed to bring to bring low-cost Internetaccess to Africa’s rural areas. The partners have leased AMOS-6 from theIsraeli company Spacecom for up to five years with an option to extendthe contract by two years. The satellite has Ka-band capacity and the twopartners have divided the estimated US$95mn cost to 2021. Facebook,in April, leased lower Ku-band capacity on three in-orbit SES satellitesthat will provide Facebook’s initial Wi-Fi connectivity in sub-SaharanAfrica. By the end of this year, the combined service will reach 14countries in western, eastern and southern Africa. The AMOS-6 arrangement is being seen as a possible stepping stone

to Eutelsat’s larger Ka-band satellite in which Facebook could also be apartner. This satellite, which is designed to cover 30 African nations, isscheduled for launch in 2019. Max Kamenetsky of Facebook’sInternet.org says the company’s investment in satellite connectivity forAfrica will answer the basic question - will people in poor rural areas payfor access to Internet data? He said, “If we were to bring Wi-Fi tocommunity aggregation points where people are paying between US$1and US$3 per month to connect, will people actually use this?”According to Dr Dawie de Wet, CEO of Q-KON the South Africa-based

specialist technology company, with the development of Ka-band basedhigh throughput satellites (HTS) the satellite industry in Africa is about toundergo even greater monumental change. Satellites with the type ofspecification of the EchoStar XVII satellite with Jupiter high-throughputtechnology that now covers North America with 60 spot beams will startentering the African domain in late 2016 and 2017. The satellite has wellin excess of 100 Gbps of capacity – enough to deliver high-speedInternet service to rural areas.

In regions like South Africa, Angola, Nigeria and East Africa, the rolloutof Ka-band frequency is opening up the consumer space by heighteninginterest in VSAT services. Kevin Viret, business development director forAfrica at UAE-based and Africa-focused satellite communications firmYahsat says that established operators have already been forced tointroduce new services to keep ahead of competition. The satelliteservices company is prepping for the launch of its third satellite - the AlYah 3 - in Q1 2017. Once launched, the Al Yah 3 will effectively extend‘YahClick’ to 19 new African markets. Viret says the intention is to backup its existing global IEC Telecom Group partnership with local partners,those that understand the dynamics of local businesses.Liquid Telecom is also expanding its satellite communications

presence in Africa with the announcement in April of a major broadcast

deal across Africa using the Eutelsat 7B satellite. The satellite will serviceLiquid Telecom’s new broadcast requirement for DTH services across theAfrican continent. At the same time, it will connect a growing number ofenterprise customers located in areas where fibre is not available. Theprovider has been granted the exclusive rights for major sporting eventsincluding English Premier League free-to-air and the NBA League. Scott Mumford, group managing executive of Satellite and VSAT at

Liquid Telecom, said, “Broadcast still plays a massive part in the satellitebusiness and we are pleased to have secured this important contract,which will allow the launch of a new large scale broadcast offering.”Meanwhile, in May Nigeria took a major step forward in its satellite

communications with a US$6mn 15-year deal reached between NigerianCommunications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) and the Belarus NationalSystem of Satellite Communications and Broadcasting (Belintersat).Strikingly, it is a deal which puts the African country – rather than itsEuropean partner – firmly in the driving seat. The antenna forBelintersat’s KU and C bands will be located in Nigeria's capital city ofAbuja and NIGCOMSAT will offer and monitor the payloads on the band.Abimbola Alale, managing director of NIGCOMSAT, said, “Within the next15 years, we shall be monitoring their payload and at the same timesending the information on real-time to Belarus as they have a groundstation there. NIGCOMSAT started this business before them. We havethe experience as we have been here in the last 10 years.” It is clear that Africa now stands on the verge of a satellite

telecommunications revolution the success of which depends on theinvestment choices now made to bring it to fruition. Dawie de Wetoutlines three possible scenarios: Satellite network operators expandvertically and make the core network investments themselves;satellite network operators enter global joint venture programmesand seek partners that are established in the Internet and broadbandlandscape, ie, the Eutelsat-Facebook partnership; and Africa forms‘satellite giants’ who are prepared and capable to make the requiredinvestment and take the end-user service directly to market. All threemay well have their ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ but at least as important toAfrica’s internet starved rural areas will be prompt and decisiveaction. �

Nnamdi Anyadike

The Amos-6 satellite (Photo: Spacecom)

AMOS-6 satellite has Ka-band capacity andFacebook and Eutelsat have divided the

estimated US$95mn cost to 2021

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Chris Wood, CEO of WIOCC, contemplates the commercial drivers extending African accessto the connected world

Notes on sustainable service,from the carriers' carrier

CABLESubmarine

WIOCC CEO CHRIS Wood met withCommunications Africa/Afriquerecently to discuss Africa'sincreasing adoption of

information and communicationstechnologies (ICTs), to relate his experienceand understanding of user demand forreliable, high-capacity bandwidth, and speakabout developments in submarine cable andterrestrial capacity.In the sense that it is regarded as 'the

carriers carrier', WIOCC offers affordable,reliable connectivity to more than 500locations in 30 African territories. Its effectiveoperating assets include approximately55,000km of terrestrial fibre and 40,000km ofsubmarine fibre-optic cable. Its networkextends from Africa to 100 cities in 29 countriesin Europe and to more than 700 cities in 70countries globally.However, there is more now to WIOCC. Chris

Wood has overseen an evolution of thebusiness, through investment in its ownnetwork expansion and also in complementaryoperations. WIOCC now gives an impulse toenterprises and economies. It motivatesnations on the cusp of digital culture anddigitised growth. Over the last couple of years,the initiation of connectivity to, through andwithin Somalia, via the EASSy cable and aninitial service delivery partnership with DalkomSomalia. He has since witnessed a doubling ofoperational capacity every six months inSomalia, with most other Somalian operatorsalso now connected to EASSy. WIOCC now sees10Gbps of capacity into Somalia - a nation withalmost no connected profile a few years ago -and expects to see double that capacity by theend of 2016. He said, "We have played a keyrole in the development of the economy ofSomalia, by enabling customers at theresidential level and at the corporate level toget on the Internet and start to become a partof the connected world."

Investment and expansionSince its formation in 2008, WIOCC has grownbeyond EASSy. As Chris Wood acknowledges,"Over the last five or six years, we've investedin cable systems to provide connectivity notjust to Southern Africa but East and CentralAfrica as well - and to various places on theWest African coast."

Expansion into new markets has beenentirely consistent with a sustainableapproach to business. As Chris Wood puts it,"We need to ensure that we deploy capital inthe right areas around Africa. We need to besure that every dollar we spend on capitalinvestment is in the right place"So, WIOCC identifies private sector demand,

and collaborates with public sector entities, toconnect companies and communities.Specifically, WIOCC has facilitated exponentialincreases in traffic in countries such as SouthAfrica, Zimbabwe, Mozambique andBotswana, as well as Somalia. Critically, it hassought to respect, adapt to and work withinregulatory frameworks in each nation it serves.Where WIOCC provides capacity, it has

worked to maximise the potentials of ongoingdevelopments in African ICT ecosystems -particularly with respect to the deployment andmanagement of terrestrial fibre networks, tobring the connected world to hithertounconnected nations. Mr Wood said, "We haveseen in recent years the development ofterrestrial networks in multiple countries,taking capacity from the coast into the majorcities, away from the coast into land-lockedcountries."The WIOCC CEO views Liquid Telecom's

extensive fibre network, for example, ascomplementary to WIOCC's submarinebusiness, adding value to operators' serviceportfolios by enhancing reach for forward-

thinking African businesses. He said, "We seeourselves as an enabler for other companies totarget the enterprise market and residentialmarkets."Chris Wood advises that the next major step

forward in African ICT entails the delivery oflocal access networks in land-locked countries.Indeed, work is already underway to open upAfrica's inner territories to the connected world.He said, "We are seeing a lot of growth incountries like Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia andDRC.

Enterprise and competitive economyAt least in part, Africa's emergence into theconnected world is not only driven byexpansion into newly-connected countries.There is also the need for multinationalbusinesses to accommodate the continentwithin globalised investment portfolios. AsChris Wood said, "Over the last several years,the basic infrastructure has been built. Gettingthe basic infrastructure was the precursor toenabling entrepreneurs to take off. We havethen seen a large number of small businessespop up, which have made a big impact inAfrica, which could not have been therewithout the infrastructure. Now, with pricesgoing down and capacity going up, what wewill see over the next couple of years will be bigbusinesses, starting to treat Africa as part oftheir global network. Previously, Africa wouldhave been an 'add-on' to their global networks,because they did not have the same networkaccess to Africa as to elsewhere. Because bigbusinesses are now treating Africa as anintegral part of their networks, global telecomscompanies such as Sprint and AT&T andVerizon are now looking at building points ofpresence, PoPs, in Africa, where previously thisdid not work for their business models."Mr Wood added that a key factor in the

sustainable growth of African ICT infrastructureis the relationship between price and volume.Africa does not have the scale for growth thathas been seen in the densely populatedmarkets of India and China. In no way canAfrican ICT sectors expect to work withnear-infinite numbers with respect tosubscriber numbers, for example. The pricecomponents and competitor offerings in anyAfrican market must be finely balancedthroughout the value chain..�

Chris Wood, CE, WIOCC



As cloud-based services proliferate in both the public and private sectors, sothe means of managing traffic becomes more sophisticated

Innovating and expandingdata centre operations

DATA Power

FOR YEARS AFRICA’S data centreindustry has lagged behind the rest ofthe world. Dogged by an unreliablepower supply; latency sensitive data

service issues; and reluctance bymultinational companies like Google andMicrosoft to establish their presence, thedevelopment of online services on thecontinent has suffered accordingly. Latency-sensitive data service provision has longbeen problematic. In 2014, Seacom whosesubmarine cables connect Africa to Europeand the Middle East estimated that 90 percent of African internet content was hostedelsewhere. This one factor alone ishistorically responsible for holding back thespeed of transmission in Africa, particularlyfor high quality streamed data.But services such as e-government, is

growing rapidly and market conditions forAfrica-based data centres is improving. TheCisco Global Cloud Index predicts that through2017, the Middle East and Africa will have thehighest cloud traffic growth rate (57 per centCAGR), followed by Asia Pacific (43 per centCAGR) and Central and Eastern Europe (36 percent CAGR). And the provision of latency-sensitive data service is now changing rapidly.Even the problem of inadequate power supplyis being effectively tackled. African datacentres are increasingly relying more on powerdistribution units (PDUs) to provide the totalenergy consumption measurements per port.This enables a client to be billed for the powerthat is used by his equipment and eliminatesmany billing-related issues.

The growing data centre industryAlthough the rise in data centres is led by SouthAfrica – Lex van Wyk, chief executive officer ofTeraco told Communications Africa/Afrique thatdata centre growth on the continent over thenext five to ten years will be “an estimated 100per cent+, with South Africa in the vanguard” - ahost of new players are also springing upelsewhere in Africa. These include Nigeria’sMainOne and The Liquid Telecom Group’s EastAfrican Data Centre based in Nairobi, which arestamping their mark. From Ghana toMozambique, Kenya and Uganda, data centresare popping up all over Africa and the comingyears promise to be exciting.

For the purposes of this articleCommunications Africa/Afrique sought out theviews of a number of key players in Africa’sdata centre industry, including The LiquidTelecom Group, MainOne and Teraco. DanKwach is general manager of the award-winning East Africa Data Centre - part of TheLiquid Telecom Group – that was the firstcustom-built data centre in the region and thelargest on the continent outside of South

Africa. He sees a swathe of new data centresunder construction in the regional hubs ofNairobi, Johannesburg and Lagos underpinnedby Africa’s transformation to an onlineeconomy.“Businesses such as banking and insurance

are realising that data analytics is part of theirbusiness key success and investing more intechnology hardware in the data centre.International global content providers are alsomoving or caching their data closer to Africa asthey look to the huge growth opportunity ofcapturing Africa’s fast growing young techsavvy population to be their users. Companiessuch as Netflix have recently moved to Africawith big data centre deployments as part oftheir recent global launch,” he observed.

Commercial environmentsGrowth is unlikely to be confined to the majorcentres and data centres are growing at a rapidrate in every African country. Over the next fiveto ten years, he said, “The factors fordetermining the potential market size will bepopulation, economic growth and sensibleregulatory environment. Phase one will be datacentres in capital cities and commerce hubsbut we will see continuing growth to second,third and outlying cities with new data centreinvestments.”The only like possible impediment to this

growth would be in, “some tightly regulated

Data growth in Africa over the next five to ten years is projected to be 100 per cent

"As technology deepenswith investments in last-mile infrastructure,effective regulation andincreased sectorparticipation, the cloud anddata centre landscape inAfrica is expected to growsignificantly." - FunkeOpeke, chief executiveofficer, MainOne; andTemitope Osunrinde,marketing operationssupervisor, MainOne



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countries with draconian freedom ofinformation laws [which] will stifle their owngrowth in this market and their economicgrowth as a result.”And the technologies are improving to cater

for this rise in demand.“The equipment that fills our data centres is

getting to higher and higher densities,” hesaid.However, this requires forward thinking on

the electrical power capacity that isprovisioned. “In our data centres we take careof the power backup and smoothing usinggenerators, voltage stabilisers and UPS, alldeployed in a fully redundant configuration.Thus our customers don’t have to think about‘African Power’ conditions. The environment formost consumers is improving slowly, orworsening severely as we have seen in SouthAfrica. This means that data owners will look tocommercial data centres as their trustedpartner, instead of trying to maintain their ownpower plants,” he said.

Data centre developmentIn West Africa, MainOne is establishing itself asa major player in the sub-region. Funke Opeke,the company’s chief executive officer, andTemitope Osunrinde, its marketing operationssupervisor, spearhead a company that isplaying a ground-breaking role in the datacentre landscape in Africa. Its Data Centresubsidiary, MDX-I’s Lekki Data Centre is thelargest in West Africa, and is currently theregion’s only PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and 9001certified data centre. MDX-I has also receivedthe Frost and Sullivan award for ProvidingAdvanced Data Centre Infrastructure in WestAfrica and is Tier III certified by the UptimeInstitute.

After South Africa, two of the countrieshosting the highest number of data centrefacilities - Nigeria and Ghana – are in the westand MainOne sees this sub-region as key togrowth on the continent. “West Africa promisesthe greatest growth in Data Centredevelopment, due to improved internetconnectivity, through circa 5 subsea cablesand growing terrestrial fibre infrastructure,”

Funke and Temi observed. Nigeria has been hithard by the ongoing oil crises, which MainOneargues has forced enterprises to take morestringent measures to mitigate the collapse inrevenues.“Outsourcing business process functions is

a proven way of reducing operating costs, andwe expect companies to take advantage of thisand transfer their costs to better equippedlocally present data centre companies to betterserve in-country customers,” Funke and Temisaid. “As technology deepens withinvestments in last-mile infrastructure,effective regulation and increased sectorparticipation, the cloud and data centrelandscape in Africa is expected to growsignificantly. Fuelled by a host of new mobilephone applications developed by softwareengineers across the continent, an innovativeand IT savvy culture is flourishing acrossAfrica.”

Innovations include mPesa’s revolutionarymobile money technology and eCommercesites like Konga, Wakanow and Hellofood. Andas access increases and costs reduce in Lagos,Port Harcourt and other parts of Nigeria,MainOne expects more innovative and locallyrelevant business models, from the likes ofCCHub, Andela, Meltwater, Hackerspace,among others. Over the next five to ten years,technologies will have moved on apace.“Organisations must take advantage of

innovative data centre strategies including useof more power efficient technologies, poised todrive down Power Utilisation Effectiveness(PUE) and options of alternative power. Weshould expect to see smarter powerinfrastructure and grids and high performingand resilient broadband technologies,” theysaid. “Intelligent PDUs now provide real-time

power consumption data while reliablydelivering power to critical IT equipment. DataCentre operators also make use of modularpower units, which allow companies to scaleup their power utilisation in tandem with theracks available, a Use as your Grow model thatensures power maximisation. These modularunits are also hotswappable, which means that

these units can be safely connected anddisconnected while the computer is poweredon and running, without shut downs.”The MainOne executives continued, “Also,

intelligent building management systems (iBMS)and Data Centre Infrastructure Managementsystems (DCIM) can also monitor power growthand facilitates monitoring of the operational andenergy performance. Finally, in the securityarena, we are seeing the deployment of multi-factor access control systems, threat detectionsystems for networks and systems, securityincident management systems and other state-of-the art technologies required to ensure thatcustomers data is secure.”The company sees a workload transition

from the traditional in-house and outsourceddata centre models to a service subscriptionmodel, such as virtualised cloud servers, andmore bespoke cloud solutions. “We plan totake advantage of the huge demand for cloudsolutions to offer the whole gamut of services,from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), toPlatform as a Service (PaaS), to Software as aService (SaaS), among others. We currentlyoffer only IaaS but we plan to scale up quicklyto meet our customer requirements.”MainOne is not the only company to be

angling for a slice of Nigeria’s cloud ITinfrastructure market that according to theInternational Data Corporation (IDC’s)Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT InfrastructureTracker accelerated by 21 per cent in 2015 toreach in excess of $32 billion. There are sometop 10 operators in Nigeria including: 21stCentury Technologies, Vodacom Business,Computer Warehouse Group (CWG), MTNBusiness Lagos Datacenter and Rack Centre,which last December won the 2015 Data CentreDynamics Award for Europe, Middle East andAfrica (EMEA) region in the Data Centre ImpactAward Category area.Rack’s award represented the first time a

company in Africa had won the Data CentreDynamics award for EMEA. Commenting on thewin Ayotunde Coker, managing director of RackCentre, said, “It shows that the African DataCentre industry is emerging and we aredelighted to be at the forefront of it.”�

Africa is entering the data centre landscape

"Businesses such asbanking and insurance arerealising that data analyticsis part of their business keysuccess and investing morein technology hardware inthe data centre." - DanKwach, general manager,East Africa Data Centre

“West Africa promises thegreatest growth in DataCentre development, due toimproved internetconnectivity, through circa5 subsea cables and growingterrestrial fibreinfrastructure,” Funke andTemi observed.



Choosing the right cabling infrastructure is essential to handling the continued growthof data and bandwidth requirements in the data centre environment

Data centrecabling considerations

DATA Cabling

LARGE ORGANISATIONS ACROSS East and West Africa aretaking part in today’s digital economy to an ever increasingextend. The availability of high performance data centrefacilities has become critical to achieving future growth and

profitability. These facilities must not only allow for quick andefficient transmission of data for processing and storage but alsoaccommodate the support for the growing demands of Big Data beingdriven by the Internet of Things (IoT).Data centre cabling infrastructure must therefore deliver reliable, low-

latency, high bandwidth connections between a variety of activeequipment at the edge and within switch-to-switch backbone links to thecore and storage area network (SAN). For the cabling infrastructure toserve as the reliable and invaluable foundation, the right choices mustbe made from day one.

Infrastructure on the edgeAt the edge, where switches connect to active equipment, standards-based category 6A is ideal for supporting a variety of architectures,including top of rack (ToR), middle of row (MoR) and end of row (EoR).With support for all current BASE-T applications up to 10 Gb/s andautonegotiation, category 6A cabling affords a longer lifespan andhigher return on investment. Another option is point-to-point cabling via short preterminated small

form-factor pluggable twin-axial copper cable assemblies such as SFP+,QSFP and other twinaxial cable assemblies. While these assembliessupport low power and low latency, which can be ideal forsupercomputing environments, their short reach limits use ToRconfigurations. They also do not support autonegotiation and thereforemust be upgraded when active equipment is upgraded.With switch-to-server connection speeds continuing to push beyond

10 Gb/s, ISO/IEC is working on next generation cabling to supportupcoming IEEE 802.3bq 25 and 40 Gb/s Ethernet (ie 25GBASE-T and40GBASE-T) over balanced twisted-pair copper cabling characterised to2 GHz. This builds on 10GBASE-T technology and is intended foroperation over 30 metres of future ISO/IEC class I cabling constructedfrom category 8.1 components and class II cabling constructed fromcategory 8.2 components. This will ensure interoperability andbackwards compatibility, plus support a broader range of architecturesthan direct attach twinaxial connections that are limited to about sevenmetres. Another future option is the IEEE 802.3by standard currently under

development, which will define 25 Gb/s operation over up to 100 metresof multimode optical fibre cabling and up to five metres over two pairs(ie one ‘lane’) of twinaxial cable. This standard is expected to supportswitch-to-server connections at the edge with SFP28 direct attach cableassemblies and may be ideal for migration to higher speeds for thosecurrently using SFP+ or other cable assemblies in ToR configurations.

Backbone links to the core and storage area networkBackbone switch-to-switch data centre deployments, where speeds areevolving from 10 to 40 and 100 Gb/s for Ethernet-based networks, andfrom 8 to 16 and 32 Gb/s for Fibre Channel-based SANs, are best servedby multimode optical fibre. While 40GBASE-LR4 and 100GBASE-LR4 that

support up to 10km over singlemode fibre is another option for the datacentre, singlemode transceivers remain more costly than multimode. One consideration for multimode fibre backbone links is staying

within optical insertion loss budgets, which is essential for ensuringproper transmission of data signals between switches, both in higherspeed Ethernet and Fibre Channel applications. The use of speciallyqualified low loss MTP connectors and fibre cable deployed for switch-to-switch connections in the data centre is therefore becoming essential. Future industry standards may result in a new wideband multimode

fibre that expands the capacity of multimode fibre for operation over arange of wavelengths to support WDM technology. Unlike currentproprietary 40 Gb/s duplex fibre applications, this new fibre will be astandards-based, interoperable technology that will be backwardscompatible with existing multimode fibre applications. It is expected tosupport duplex 40 and 100 Gb/s fibre links using 10 or 25 Gb/s channelson four different wavelengths.

Proof pointStandards-based category 6A cabling or higher makes the most sensefor today’s switch-to-server connections in the data centre, with opticalfibre in backbone links to the core and SAN. This was exactly thecombination chosen by MainOne in Nigeria, West Africa’s largest TIER IIIco-location data centre. More than 2,400 fibre links using 1,200 pairs ofmultimode (OM3) fibre and 1,200 pairs of singlemode (OS2) fibre wereinstalled for the backbone infrastructure, with best-in-class coppercabling to connect servers and work area outlets to access switches.�

Stefan Naude RCDD, technical manager for Siemon in Africa

Data centre managers must select cabling media to ensure support forbusiness growth



Autour de la connaissance de la situation maritime, et de différentes agences maritimesnationales

Vers une meilleure analysedes données d’intérêt maritime

INFORMATIQUEMaritime

ASSURER LA POLICE en mer etl’exploitation en toute sécurité desressources maritimes nécessite,entre autres, l’analyse continue des

données d’intérêt maritime collectées auprèsde diverses sources ouvertes (open source) etleur partage au niveau régional, encoordination avec les administrationsnationales.

Dans le cadre du projet européen CRIMARIO,vingt-six participants de Maurice et des paysriverains de l’Océan indien (Comores, Kenya,Madagascar, Malaisie, Mozambique,Seychelles, Somalie, Yémen) ont pu développerleurs compétences en matière de visualisationet d'analyse des données d’intérêt maritimeset partager leurs expériences.

Analyse des données maritimesLes Etats se doivent d'assurer la sûreté et lasécurité maritimes dans leurs eauxmais également en haute mer. L'échanged'informations entre les différentesadministrations (Transport, Marine nationale,Police, Environnement, Douanes, Pêche, etc.)est l'un des éléments clés contribuant à cesobjectifs. La coopération régionale entre lespays voisins en constitue un autre.

Cette analyse est partagée à la fois par lesÉtats côtiers de l'océan Indien et les partenairesinternationaux, notamment l'Union européennequi a lancé divers projets dont le projetCRIMARIO (programme Routes maritimescritiques); ce projet a pour but de promouvoir laculture de la connaissance de la situationmaritime (maritime situational awareness) endéveloppant le partage de l'information et lerenforcement des capacités techniques ethumaines d’analyse de cette information.CRIMARIO soutient également les initiativesrégionales, telles que le Protocole de Mombasa.

La session de formation qui s’est dérouléedu 25 au 29 avril 2016 à Mombasa (Kenya), estla deuxième contribution de CRIMARIO aurenforcement du savoir-faire régional enmatière d’analyse et de partage des donnéesd’intérêt maritime. Elle complète la premièresession organisée à Mombasa en févrierdernier.

Vingt-six participants, provenant dedifférentes agences maritimes nationales, sesont entrainés à la visualisation et à l’analyseles données provenant de sources SIA (ou AIS

en anglais - Système d'identificationautomatique est un systèmed’échanges automatisés qui permet auxnavires et aux systèmes de surveillance detrafic d’identifier et de localiser les navires enéchangeant des données avec d’autres naviresproches, des stations AIS et des satellites). Ilsse sont également entraînés à l’analysestatistique à l’aide d’un tableur électronique.

Les participants ont appris à utiliser QGIS, unsystème d’information géographique(SIG), libre de droit, qui permet de visualiser,produire et analyser les données sur descartes très précises. A l’issue de cette deuxièmesession, ils sont maintenant en mesure demieux visualiser les données d’intérêtmaritime, et de conduire des analyses afind’identifier des tendances. Les participants deMaurice venaient de la garde-côte nationale,alors que d’autres participants venaient decentres de partage d’information initié par leCode de conduite de Djibouti. Grâce à cettedeuxième formation pratique dans le cadre duprojet CRIMARIO, ces spécialistes del’information maritime ont approfondi leursaptitudes à l’analyse des données d’intérêtmaritime. Ils se sont entraînés sur les donnéesde la piraterie de l’année 2012, et les données

de navigation en Océan Indien de l’année 2015.En outre, comme la piraterie a fortement

diminué au cours de ces dernières années, il estimportant que les centres de partage del’information aient une valeurajoutée opérationnelle, ce qui passe par unapprofondissement de leurs compétences enanalyse globale du domaine maritime.

Le protocole de MombasaQuatre pays, hébergeant des centres departage d’information et de formationmaritimes (Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzanie, Yémen)ont initié le Protocole de Mombasa qui viseà consolider le cadre de coopération existant (leCode de conduite de Djibouti), définir les règlesde gouvernance des centres de Djibouti et duYémen et proposer un mécanisme de gestiondurable à long terme.

Enfin, le Protocole de Mombasa œuvre pourconclure des accords de partage d’informationentre les Etats riverains de l’Océan indien, lesencourageant à aller au-delà des seulesdonnées de la piraterie. CRIMARIO soutientcette initiative ainsi que toute autre initiative oumécanisme facilitant le partage de l’informationet une meilleure connaissance du domainemaritime. �

L’analyse continue des données d’intérêt maritime collectées (Photo: Fotolia/mirceadobre78)


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Industry pundits have been predicting steady growth in the adoption and use of TETRAfor secure communications scenarios in the Middle East and Africa

Investing in criticaladoption and application

TETRA Networks

PREDICTIONS ARE ALL too often tingedwith degree of uncertainty, but whenTETRA and Critical CommunicationsAssociation (TCCA) CEO Phil Kidner

speaks, the industry usually takes note. Backin September 2014 he was very clear abouthow TETRA was expected to progress in theMEA region in the years ahead. He said at thetime that the MEA was a ‘vibrant market’ withmore than ‘half a million TETRA users’ andthat significant progress was being made inregional trials to assess the suitability of LTE.He added that the number of users of thetechnology was set to increase, furtherdemonstrating that, “TETRA remains thefoundation to build upon, both for new andfor existing critical communications users.”

And if Kidner’s views were not enough to puta smile on the faces of regional TETRA players,independent analyst and leading TETRA expert,Thomas Lynch, now director at the criticalcommunications group for global research atIHS took a look into his own crystal ball. Hepredicted that industrial, transportation andutilities segments would all experience ‘doubledigit growth’ in the use of TETRA over the nextfive years. He added that this would build onover 70,000 shipments of TETRA devices in theMEA region that had taken place in 2013. As forKidner’s words about trials, Lynch added adimension to this by saying that the projects to

trial and utilise LTE already underway in theregion were addressing not only the publicsafety sector but also oil & gas andtransportation sectors.

Intelligence in the marketTalking to Communications Africa/Afrique,some 18 months after those double-digitpredictions, Thomas Lynch was happy toconfirm that his predictions were on track. Hedrew some latest TETRA stats from IHS’ MobileRadio Intelligence Service, which providesfigures for the whole mobile radio marketaddressing terminals, infrastructure and, in hiswords, “pretty much everything you need toknow about LMR”.

He said, “Our base year, 2015, is the year welast looked at TETRA in MEA and on which webase our latest projections; these lead us tobelieve that in 2016 there will be 650,000users of TETRA in the MEA region.”

He indicated that it was actually a ‘fantastic’year for TETRA in these markets with significantgrowth and the involvement of some of the keyplayers in the space, like Motorola, Sepura andAirbus.

He said, “Overall it is still a pretty positivemarket. The growth of TETRA last year meansthere were lots of new users on TETRA networksand whilst we can see there are projects forLTE, these combine both LTE and TETRA - it’s

not one size fits all. Africa and the ME is still avery buoyant TETRA market.”

Investing in solutionsSuch investment going on in TETRA equipmentand infrastructure strongly suggests thetechnology has considerable longevity acrossthe region; would those investing in it be happyto see its demise anytime soon?

“Not by a long shot,” Lynch confirmed.“That doesn’t mean they won’t use LTE on topor alongside TETRA. Of course they will,” saidLynch, “especially where the money isavailable. These markets want the high-endtechnology, especially in the ME wheresecurity is the crucial application right nowand in which TETRA has already proven itselfas a very secure and reliable communicationsmedium.”

According to IHS’ Lynch, South Africacurrently has the largest TETRA user base inAfrica with almost 70,000 users in 2016. InAfrica’s aerospace and airport sector, whereWiMAX technology has had a major role to playin recent years, Lynch said that he could seeTETRA making progress in this area and thatWiMAX was not the total solution for thatsector. He added, however, that LTE woulddefinitely be a consideration in the Africanmarket alongside TETRA applications and otherplayers outside the TETRA fold, such as


Airbus Defence and Spaceutilises TETRA technology



TETRANetworks

Huawei, Nokia and ZTE are already playing inthe Africa market and will continue to do so.

He said, “Public Safety will continue to bethe lead application for TETRA and LTE in Africabut transportation is also a big opportunity forTETRA.”

African utilities and the energy sector, inparticular, where SCADA (Supervisory ControlAnd Data Acquisition) is used by a number ofagencies for remote monitoring and controlwith TETRA as its bearer, also presents majoropportunities for the technology for many yearsto come.

Some Southern African TETRA specificsCurrently, SA operates a major PS TETRAnetwork operating in the 380MHz-400MHzband, with other surrounding Southern Africannations having also embraced TETRA.

In the Western Cape, the SAPS network has15,000 users and provides coverage for theCape Metropolitan Area with infrastructureprovided by Motorola at 14 sites. In the city ofcape Town itself there are a further 15,000users with 32 Motorola infrastructure sites. AtCape Town Airport, an undetermined numberof users rely on TETRA provided at two sites byAirbus Defence & Space (DS) Secure LandCommunications. In Gauteng Province,Motorola TETRA infrastructure at 68 sitesprovides the service for 35,000 subscribers,

with a further 8,500 users supported by Rohde& Schwartz TETRA infrastructure. InJohannesburg Rohill infrastructure at 13 sitessupports some 500 users.

In neighbouring Botswana, PS coverage forthe police force is provided along the main A1route by Motorola with 27 sites supportingsome 3,000 users. The office of Botswana’sPresident also uses TETRA for its security andclose-protection activities. The country’sJaweng Diamond mine - the eighth largestdiamond mine in the world with an annualaverage output of 12-15mn carats per annumbut with reserves that make it the richestdiamond mine in the world - also uses TETRA

infrastructure provided by Motorola at five sitesto provide services to 1,500 users. TheGoedgevonden coal mine in north-west SA,also uses TETRA infrastructure provided byMotorola at five sites to provide service for1,000 users.

Over the border in Namibia, the Namdebdiamond mine also uses TETRA provided byMotorola infrastructure at 13 sites supporting 1,400users. The Namibian Government in Windhoek alsouses infrastructure provided by Artevia at 16 sites tosupport 1,000 TETRA users in the capital and whenen route to and from the airport. �

Tim Guest


PROFESSIONAL MOBILE RADIO (PMR) solutions provider Hytera showcased itslatest digital two-way radios and oil & gas solutions at the 2016 Ghana Oil andGas Summit 2016, held recently in Accra.Hytera attended the two-day event together with its local distributor ACT-ICTGhana. The company displayed its radio portfolio and innovative applications inthe expo. Customised radio communication solutions provided by Hytera can beused in various situations, such as oil exploration, on & off shore oil & gas sitesmanagement.One-stop solutions offered by Hytera have rich functions and features, such ashigh-level encryption, flexible dispatching, Geo-fencing, man-down alarm, GPStracking and so on. The quality of the firm’s products and solutions drewnumerous visitors during the Ghana summit.

Hytera showcases oil & gas solutions in Ghana

AT TIME OF going to press, Airbus Defence andSpace has just announced that it will equip policeand firefighters in the Stellenbosch Municipalitywith P8GR pagers as well as TH1n, THR9Ex andTHR880i radios over the next five years. Accordingto the company, the mission-critical radio terminalswill enable PS personnel to communicate moresafely and efficiently over an area that coversabout 830sqkm. Markus Kolland, head of sales forEurope and Africa at Airbus DS Secure LandCommunications, said, “Stellenbosch’s order isimportant for us as Africa is the future continentfor secure professional mobile radio technology.”

He added that Stellenbosch’s administrationchose different TETRA terminals for each PSservice, the fire brigades adopting the P8GR andTHR9Ex and traffic police the TH1n. Otherdepartments will use the THR880i. The TETRAP8GR pager enables secure two-waycommunication between the control centre andoperational units, offering all essential TETRAfeatures for alerting, such as group calls. Theslimline TETRA radio TH1n is the thinnest andlightest TETRA terminal in the world, and therobust THR9Ex can be used in hazardous,explosion-prone environments.

Wine region’s TETRA reinforcements

A SUPPLIER OF advanced, ultra-reliable integrated systems foravionics, radar, surveillance andSatcom applications, CobhamAntenna Systems has launchedthe FPA-0.7-2.7R/2319, the first ina new range of high power,directional spiral antennas.The FPA-0.7-2.7R/2319 offers highpower, high gain and circularpolarisation within a compact, lowprofile, rugged housing. It is suitablefor multi-band communications aswell as cellular countermeasure andsecurity applications. The low profilehousing means that this antenna canbe used to replace much larger andmore expensive, Log-Periodic, Horn orConical spiral antennas and also beused in situations whereheight/profile is critical.The FPA-0.7-2.7R/2319 covers thefrequency range 700MHz to 2.7GHzand has a beamwidth of 60° x 60°. Ithas a peak gain of 10dBiC and hasbeen designed to handle up to 150W(with the potential of operatingefficiently at much higher power).The combination of high power andhigh gain means that a very

significant Effective IsotropicRadiated Power (EIRP) can begenerated to increase signal strengthto overload any hostile system atgreater distance.The narrow beamwidth helps toensure that the disruptive signals aretargeted where they need to be whilereducing the effect on friendly areas.Providing circular polarisationensures that the antenna will ‘couple’with any polarised linear signal, givingmore chance of disrupting hostilesystems.The high power spiral range currentlyincludes four products covering 0.4 -6.0, 0.7 - 2.7, 1.7 - 6.0 and 2.0 - 5.9 GHz.

Cobham achieves a first in spiral antennas


The latest machines, devices, software and suppliers at NAB, the 2016 globalbroadcast showcase in Las vegas

Innovations and innovatorsin equipment and services

BROADCAST NAB

TRADE SHOWS LIKE NAB, IBC and theirvarious regional equivalents used tofigure high in the calendars ofbroadcast channel managers and

senior engineers. Less so now that the mainstories can often be found online, filed byeager reporters on a daily or even hourlybasis. Diligent CommunicationsAfrica/Afrique readers will therefore alreadyknow that the 2016 NAB Show (Las Vegas,April 18-21) was dominated by increasinglyaffordable 4K cameras and, perhaps lesspredictably, so called 'virtual reality'. Head-worn video displays allowing individualviewers to choose whether to look left orright, up or down. It is a nice concept even ifhitherto confined to video games. I first triedone some 20 years ago at a games arcade inLondon, in the UK. It proved a memorableexperience because the attendant haddifficulty removing the display from my headafter the event.

VR headsets are becoming seriouslyinexpensive which is good but are stillseriously low resolution which is bad. Most ofthe VR demonstrations at NAB used a 1920 x1080 resolution mobile phone as the displaydevice, delivering approximately 1000 x 1000pixels to each eye. A million of anything soundsgenerous but a million pixels in a regularsquare mesh is far below human visualresolving power so the effect is like viewing theworld as a coarse mosaic. One exhibitor

integrated a 4K Samsung phone into itsheadset, displaying a more impressive 2000 x2000 pixels per eye. Even then, pixilation wasvisible on bright areas of the image.

This is very good news for an industry keento promote not just 4K but 8K televisionformats. Better still, Samsung is talking aboutstarting work on 11K displays.

Traditional flat-panel screens seen from ametre or more away do not demand such highresolution but VR using head-worn close-updisplays emphatically does. VR will be aninteresting niche to track over the next three tofive years, both in 2D and, if I dare mention it,3D.

NAB offered interesting insights into theways in which broadcast technology isdeveloping over the long-term. There wereseveral presentations at the event, whichserved as indicators of current and futureindustry progress.

IP and scalable video performanceNewTek Inc president Andrew Cross andcolleague Stephen Bowie addressed the issueof IP and scalable video performance. In ajointly-prepared presentation, they observed,“Video over IP represents one of the mostfundamental and far-reaching transitions thatour indus-try has ever seen. It will have farmore profound impact at all levels ofproduction than mundane factors such asresolution and frame-rate that have often

preoccupied us previously. Unlike SDI andother video-specific cabling, what makes IP sodifferent is that infrastructure already exists inalmost every building in the world, fibreconnects these all together and cable, radioand satellite bring connectivity to even themost remote places on the planet.”

In order to accommodate the need to workwithin existing infrastructure and the fact thatallowing people to innovate and enablesoftware approaches to multi-stream live videoover IP without license fees, NewTek launchedits NDI initiative. Solutions such as ASPEN andSMPTE 2022 take a more traditional broadcastapproach, but these probably requireinfrastructure upgrades.

And IP’s bi-directional nature makes it asuperior offering over traditional videocommunications systems in other ways. Byeliminating constraints on device input andoutput counts, it enables intelligent resourceusage, and multiplies available content andsources exponentially.

As Cross and Bowie note, “IP offers spatialand temporal scaling far beyond any othercurrent technology. We also considered theinevitability of the shift from specialisedsolutions to general purpose infrastructures.IP’s adoption is driven by the unstoppablemomentum of consumer economics. Doing so,in turn, positions us take full advantage of theamazing tools that consumer markets havebuilt (and will yet build) for our own ends.”




BROADCASTNAB

Topics and tips for live IP production centresMike Ellis of the BBC delivered a advisorypresentation on live IP production centres.According to Mr Ellis, “The broadcast world hasgrown up with a number of bespoke standardsdesigned specifically around its needs. Forexample, HD-SDI specifies everything from thenumber of pixels in the image and thesampling rate of the audio right down to theimpedance of the cable used to carry thesignal. As we have moved from SD to HD to full-HD to UHD, the SDI standard has had to be re-implemented all the way from the top to thebottom to support the new format, thus ‘SDI’today is actually a suite of more than thirtyvertically-integrated and largely non-interoperable standards.”

Moving the production process toward anIP-based solution will enable the flexibilityneeded to evolve underlying infrastructure overtime rather than revolutionising architecturewith a “big-bang” approach every few years. Itis even better if ‘standard’ network equipmentcan be used rather than ‘video-specific’ or‘audio-specific’ variants, so that there aresignificant IT cost advantages.

As Mr Ellis noted, “The potential advantagesfrom moving toward an IP-based productionenvironment are manifold, including:• Flexibility to support emerging content

standards: (different picture and soundformats as well as different content formatssuch as 360-media and non-linear content)with a common infrastructure

• Improved support for remote working,allowing teams to work together regardlessof geography

• Migration to commodity IT hardware insteadof expensive, bespoke equipment.

To achieve this, however, a number ofchallenges still need to be addressed,including:• Maintaining the technical quality of the

content• Securing the content from malicious or

accidental abuse• Delivering acceptable levels of reliability

and resilience

• Developing the techniques to make use ofthe technology as simple and intuitive asthe SDI- and AES-based solutions – the IPequivalent of a patch-panel

• Developing the tools and techniquesrequired to quickly identify and rectifyfailures

According to Mr Ellis, “The industry also needsto build the skills base available to it. We canno longer afford broadcast engineers whoknow nothing about networks any more thanwe can have network engineers who knownothing about broadcasting.”

High dynamic rangeSaurabh Mathur and Erik Reinhard ofTechnicolor spoke at NAB on the theme of highdynamic range. Their presentation included theidea that the “deployment of HDR videoservices will involve upgrades to all currentlyavailable media delivery mechanisms,including (live) broadcast, Internet streaming,physical media (Blu-Ray), satellite and cabledistribution” and that “HDR content can becaptured using a camera, or can be computer-synthesised”, as “VFX production addscomputer-generated content to previouslycaptured footage” and “capture devices arerapidly becoming more powerful, with the likesof Arri, Red and Sony marketing cameras thatproduce around 14 to 16.5 claimed f-stops ofdynamic range”. In practice, several f-stops arelost due to noise.

Controlled equipment upgradesUpgrading to an HDR display is not alwaysnecessary. Expect to see a mix of SDR and HDRdevices co-existing for the foreseeable future.Distributors will be required to simulcast SDRand HDR versions of the same content, unlesssome form of a backward-compatibledistribution scheme is deployed. Backwards-compatible solutions allow the same stream tobe played back on SDR and HDR devices.

According to Mathur and Reinhard,“Traditionally, there is no control over theillumination in the home, but now colouristsand directors have even less control as to how

their material is displayed and enjoyed.Conveying the director’s intent is thereforebecoming more difficult as more high-enddisplays come onto the market. As a result,there is a need to apply some form of display-specific re-grading somewhere along the chainof processing. In addition to dynamic rangemanagement, this may involve colour volumeprocessing. Consumer-side processing wouldbe a good way to serve highly capableconsumer displays in the interim while theremainder of the video pipeline is beingupdated, and fresh HDR content is in themaking.”

4K/8K HDR broadcastingYukihiro Nishida and colleagues at NHKused NAB to provide an update on 4K/8Khigh dynamic range broadcasting. He said,“In Japan, we are going to launch 8K/4KHDR television broadcasting via satellite in2016. The specifications for HDR have beenincluded in a series of standards for ultrahigh definition (UHD) televisionbroadcasting. We have adopted two HDR TVsystems: Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG), asspecified in ARIB STD-B67, and PerceptualQuantizer as specified in SMPE ST 2084.

“Among key devices for the success of8K broadcasting are HEVC decoders forreceivers. NHK and Socionext have jointlydeveloped the world’s first HEVC decoderLSI for 8K. Socionext is also developingvarious components necessary forfabricating 8K/4K receivers. NHK and Sharphave jointly developed the world’s first 8KLCD TV capable of displaying HDRpictures.”

Next year at NABTaking place next year from 22-27 April,NAB Show will again cover the latestpractices and solutions. In 2017, the mediaand entertainment industry willdemonstrate technological innovation toextend content creation and managementin digital ecosystems. �

David Kirk



The growth of digital for francophone audiences in Africa, what advertisers can learnabout their behaviours, and how they can use this insight to target key markets

It’s time for advertisers to become‘au fait’ with French speakers

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AMONGST THE MANY springtime celebrations, there is onewhich is little known to the general public, but neverthelessclose to the hearts of French speakers living overseas: la fêtede la Francophonie. Every year cultural events are staged

worldwide to celebrate the richness and vibrance of French-speakingacross the five continents. Participants in dozens of cities as diverseas Oslo, Abidjan, Los Angeles, or Tokyo, can join and enjoy movieprojections, theatre plays, music concerts, book fairs, word games,and plenty more festivities, all united through their love for thelanguage.

A matter of styleWith English deeply-rooted as the primary language in the globalbusiness landscape, culture is the main incentive to study and learnFrench for non-native speakers today. France is the most visited countryin the world, it is world leader in luxury goods, with a strong reputation for style, good foodand fine wine. In the Soft Power rankingscompiled by PR firm Portland, in associationwith Facebook and research companyComRes, the country ranks third in the fieldsof culture - behind the US and the UK - andfirst for engagement with the globalcommunity. According to Ipsos AffluentSurvey 2015, a third of high-incomeEuropeans practice at least two foreignlanguages and 36 per cent of them enjoywatching foreign channels. Importantly,French is the second most widely knownlanguage outside of Francophone countries(France, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg),with an overall penetration of 19 per cent. Itranks highest in Southern Europe, noticeablyItaly with 38 per cent of French-speakers inthe affluent population. And in English-speaking countries it remains the primaryforeign language learned. For advertisersseeking educated, cultured indviduals, then,primary and secondary French speakersshould be a key demographic.

For instance, the research shows thatpeople who use French as a secondary language, are more likely to holdmasters degrees and to travel frequently : 19 per cent made six or moreinternational air trips in the past year vs 13 per cent for the total surveyuniverse. They also enjoy higher than average personal income, and aremore prominent in top business positions (C-suite).

Community and cultureThe cultural appetite of the French-language community is confirmed bythe Ipsos survey, with higher than average visits to cinemas as well as tomuseums and art galleries amongst foreign speakers. Interest for Frenchculture and lifestyle extends well beyond the Francophone community,with a large population of French speaking audiences in Asia and the

Middle East for example.However, the largest growing French-speaking audience which is

fuelling interest from advertisers is Africa. The Paris-based Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)

estimates that 212mn people around the world are born and bredspeaking French, with 55 per cent of them living in Africa. Fordemographic experts, the continent is expected to account for more thanhalf of the population growth over the next three decades. If theeducation targets are met, the French-speaking population could trebleand reach 650mn by 2060 according to OIF.

Still the main demographic hotspot will be Nigeria, currently theseventh largest country in the world but with a population which atcurrent rates is expected to grow the fastest according to the UN. As aresult, it could overtake the US as the third most populated country by2050!

The combined effects of a rise in populationand income power will fuel the appetite forconsumer goods and households equipmentsthroughout Africa. According to Celia Collins,Managing Director at Carat Johannesburg,many global and large regional marketers –like P&G, Coca-Cola, General Motors,Woolworths, Old Mutual, Diageo, Peugeot –who are targeting and expanding through thedevelopment and building of major productionplants, will continue to invest heavily into theiradvertising on the continent.

This is why at TV5Monde and France 24 wehave seen a 70 per cent increase between 2011and 2015 in spend on sponsorship andadvertising from African advertisers, withnotable brands being Castel Beer and GSK,along with banks and government institutions.They are using international channels like oursto reach African audiences as there are strictregulations in Africa and there is no advertisingon national stations. International channelsprovide a way around these issues and a directroute to affluent French speakers across theglobe.

Using international media campaigns(rather than multi-national campaigns that target multiple countries viaa number of national channels) can also be more cost effective becausethere are fewer buying points to deal with and less creative is required(see www.intvgroup.org for a useful guide on planning internationalcampaigns).

As the influence and spending power of French speakersincreases, it seems it’s time for advertisers to say ‘Vive laRévolution’ and embrace the opportunities for reachingFrancophones. �

Franck Buge, board member of the inTV Group and research director atTV5Monde

Franck Buge, board member of the inTV Group andresearch director at TV5Monde


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A SUBSIDIARY OF satellite operator SES, SES Platform Services (SESPS) has strengthened its partnership with K-NET, an ICT and Telecomsplatform services company based in Ghana, to create a joint venture.The new partnership will contract SES capacity, SES PS’s and K-NET’sservices, and aim to bring high picture quality content to the homes ofmillions of viewers by strengthening the direct-to-home (DTH) platformand also providing digital terrestrial television (DTT) services via SES’sprime orbital position at 28.2 degrees East.

The joint venture will use SES’s high-powered satellite capacity, K-NET’s highly-efficient teleport services and SES PS’s reliable videoplatform services. This partnership will offer a unified bouquet of highquality free-to-air (FTA) and free-to-view (FTV) channels, from all overWest Africa, as well as some popular international channels, to millionsof viewers in the region.

The partnership will ensure that consumers, especially in Ghanawhere 98 per cent of satellite households are serviced by SESsatellites, receive newer and higher quality viewing formats and alsohave access to connected services when they become available.

Wilfried Urner, CEO of SES Platform Services, said, “We are proud tobe K-NET’s partner of choice. We are at the forefront of the provision ofFTA and FTV channels in the sub region and driving further DTHpenetration in various West African countries. The partnership will

further accelerate the globalisation of SES’s video business, increaseour channel growth and establish us as a world-leading nextgeneration video and media service provider.”

Richard Hlomador, chairman of K-Net, added, “We have worked withSES since 2001 and are pleased to be able to extend our partnershipwith SES Platform Services. We have built a robust DTH platform, anddelivering content in consistently high-quality is a top priority for us.This makes SES Platform Services the ideal partner of choice.”

SES Platform Services and K-NET collaborate on digital switchover and satellite channels for West Africa

SES Platform Services and K-NET are working together to provide qualitysatellite channels for West Africa audiences

“We have built a robust DTH platform, anddelivering content in consistently high-

quality is a top priority for us.”- Richard Hlomador, chairman, K-Net

IN HIS OPENING address at the Digital Broadcasting Africa Forum 2016, heldrecently in Lagos, Nigeria, the Secretary-General of the CommonwealthTelecommunications Organisation (CTO), Shola Taylor called on Africancountries to meet their obligations from treaty agreements they have signed upto for ICTs.

“The region should put greater effort at meeting obligations from treatyagreements that they sign up to and in this case, they must accelerate thecompletion of the digital switchover process. Among other things, they mustaddress the key challenges of funding, adequate regulatory frameworksconsistent with new digital multimedia services, as well as the need for effectivecoordination with their neighbours,” said Mr Taylor.

Mr Taylor also called on African countries to better value spectrum as a publicgood. “One obvious lesson from this process is that with continued advances inradio transmission technologies, we increasingly realise how valuable spectrumis as a finite resource, and regrettably also, how undervalued it has been in someparts of the region. So, whenever possible, while it is countries’ sovereign rightto use spectrum as they see fit, it is our view that it must be made available onsound economic grounds first, including for the broadcasting sector itself,” MrTaylor added.

Speaking about the purpose of the event, Mr Taylor said that it was aimed atreviewing the current state of digital migration in Africa and reflect on emergingtrends in digital broadcasting and their likely impact on the continent’sbroadcasting sector and on its economic development. To provide practicalsupport to the region on spectrum valuation, Mr Taylor also announced a seriesof activities in support of member countries in the region, including a workshopto take place in August in South Africa on spectrum auctions and a forum onspectrum management to take place in November in Cameroon.

CTO Secretary-General calls on Africancountries to meet their digital obligations

A CHINA-FOCUSED GLOBALLY integrated content archive, launched toserve Asian broacasters in 2014, the BON Cloudmedia platform is nowavailable in Africa. Built as a one-stop-shop international mediasolution for producers, publishers and broadcasters, BON Cloudboasts an active database of more than 6,000 international mediaprofessionals downloading, re-editing and re-purposing BON Cloudcreated assets every day, resulting in the production, to date, of morethan 4,200 short videos.

“The purpose of BON Cloud is to provide access to fresh,professional China-related content to content acquisitionprofessionals, editors, and producers, across Africa’s 54 nations, andlicense - free,” explained Ash Bowkett, VP, international businessdevelopment at BON Cloud. “Across Africa, audiences and industryalike are showing increasing interest in China, whether as a strategicdevelopment partner, for international trading purposes, or as aholiday destination. We are strongly positioned as the only non-newsChina-content provider source for Africa.”While the Associated Press and Bloomberg already source culture andbusiness content and footage from BON Cloud, hundreds of televisionbroadcast stations and websites around the world also access theplatform when they require a China story. BON Cloud is currently beingused by traditional and digital broadcasters to:• Locate broadcast-ready video content• Obtain media packages for reproduction• Add extra multicultural segment value to the broadcast output• Directly utilise mainland China-based production services

BON Cloud debuts license-free Chinesecontent for African broadcasters


Avec Eutelsat, la Tunisie étend la diffusion de son nouveau bouquet gratuit de télévisionpar satellite

Autour de la souverainetéde l’Etat tunisien

TRANSMISSION Satellite

L’OPÉRATEUR EUTELSAT COMMUNICATIONS a signé un contratpluriannuel de location de capacité avec l’Office National de laTélédiffusion (ONT) tunisien sur le satellite Eutelsat 7 West Apour diffuser en clair un bouquet gratuit de télévision. Ce

bouquet est dès à présent accessible aux foyers équipés en réceptionsatellite en Afrique du Nord et en Afrique de l’Ouest.

Un pôle audiovisuel de référenceCette location procède de la volonté de l’ONT de consolider l’offre dechaînes tunisiennes actuellement diffusées en Afrique du Nord. L’ONT aainsi regroupé une dizaine de chaînes existantes1 au sein d’un seul etmême bouquet satellite, à la position 7/8° Ouest, position phare pourl’audiovisuel dans la région.

Une offre de chaînes étendue à l’Afrique de l’OuestA travers ce bouquet, la diffusion actuelle de ces chaînes va être étendueà l’Afrique de l’Ouest. Par ailleurs, les foyers d’Afrique du Nord et del’Ouest équipés d’une parabole pointée vers 7/8° Ouest pourrontbénéficier d’une qualité d’image en progression et d’une navigationfacilitée à travers les chaînes.

Nôomên Elfehri, Ministre des Technologies de la Communication etde l’Economie Numérique, a déclaré : « Le lancement de ce projetnational traduira la souveraineté de l’Etat tunisien dans le domaine del'audiovisuel. Un très grand nombre de téléspectateurs va pouvoirapprécier la variété et la qualité des contenus proposés par les chaînestunisiennes. »

La diffusion des programmesCrée en 1993, l’ONT est une Entreprise publique à caractère nonadministratif, doté de la personnalité civile et de l’autonomie financièreet placé sous la tutelle du Ministère des Technologies de laCommunication et de l’Economie Numérique. Sa mission est d’assurer ladiffusion des programmes radiophoniques et télévisuels et ce par lacréation, l’exploitation, l’entretien et l’extension des réseaux dediffusion de ces programmes, le contrôle et la protection de la qualité de

la réception, la conduite des études et recherches sur le matériel et lestechniques de radiodiffusion et de télédiffusion, la promotion et lacoopération avec les organismes techniques internationaux et étrangerset en coordination avec les institutions nationales concernées.

Il diffuse actuellement 9 chaînes appartenant à la radio tunisienne(centrales et régionales) sur les réseaux de modulation de fréquences etsur les ondes moyennes. A partir de 2011, et avec la libération du secteurde l’audiovisuel en Tunisie, le nombre de chaînes radios privéesautorisées s’est multiplié. Pour y répondre, des réseaux de diffusion deces programmes en FM ont été installés et on dénombre à présent 21radios privées.

L’extinction de l’analogiquePour garantir un passage à la TNT et l’extinction de l’analogique (prévuemi 2016) un plan de transition a été mis en place, l’ONT diffuseactuellement 9 chaînes tv privées à titre expérimental.

Pour assurer l’ensemble de ces services, un effectif avoisinant 600personnes et une centaine de sites d’émissions et de réémissions sontrépartis sur tout le territoire. Les sites de diffusion principaux sont reliésentre eux et au centre de distribution et de contrôle de l’image, du sonet des données appelé centre nodal de Tunis, par un réseau FH degrande capacité et d’une longueur de 4000 km environ.

Une collaboration renforcée entre Eutelsat et l’ONTDhaker Baccouch, Président Directeur général de l’ONT, a ajouté: « Enfaisant le choix du satellite Eutelsat 7 West A, nous faisons bénéficier lestéléspectateurs d’une meilleure qualité d’image sur un nombre dechaînes qui a vocation à croître. »

Michel Azibert, Directeur commercial et du développementd’Eutelsat, a ajouté : « Ce nouvel accord de l’ONT avec Eutelsatvient renforcer les capacités satellitaires que l’ONT a déjàdéployées sur trois de nos satellites, Eutelsat 12 West B, HOT BIRDet Eutelsat 36B, pour des services allant du rapatriement dereportage à la diffusion audiovisuelle à destination du grandpublic. �



Ann Brown, managing director of FG Wilson, speaks with Communications Africa on howthe company went on to become one of the firebrands in the genset industry today

‘Despite economic turbulence, there’s ahunger for power’

PROFILEFG Wilson

Communications Africa (CAF) tell us a bit about the history of FGWilson?Ann Brown (AB): We were founded in 1966 by Fred Wilson. A trueentrepreneur, Fred saw opportunity for generator sets amid theeconomic chaos of the early 1970s, and in the 1980s, under theleadership of his son Tom, FG Wilson was among the first to bring mass-scale production to generator sets, launching self-contained generatorsets, which were simple to buy, operate and easy to install.

They say it’s important to be in the right place at the right time butequally important is how you act when you see that opportunity. BothFred and Tom had the vision and the willpower to make the most of theposition they were in.

CAF: What changes do you see coming in the generator set industry?AB: Certainly over the last five to ten years, we’ve seen engines becomemore environmentally friendly and efficient and that has helped to drivedown the cost per kVA of generator sets which has been good forcustomers.

Twenty years ago if you’d asked us about industry structure, we'dprobably have said that the industry was likely to consolidate, with twoor three big global players, operating with economies of scale occupyingthe greater part of the world market and the rest of the businessfragmented into many smaller players. Yes, today there are a handful ofglobal generator set brands, of which FG Wilson is one, but there hasalso been an explosion in the number of regional players, packaginglocally, and riding on the reputation of the engine brands which theypackage into their products. These local packagers can be very cost-competitive and it's given customers more choice.

But in the next five to ten years, we see customer expectations risingin terms of product quality, performance and support. It’s going to becommon across all industries. The mentality of price-is-everything andsell-and-forget will always be there in a part of the market but overall wesee expectations rising.

CAF: Is this where you are putting emphasis?AB: Yes very much. It’s about more than just putting metal together.

Since 1990 we’ve installed 600,000 generator sets with a totalinstalled capacity of almost 90GW – more than the total installed mainselectricity capacity of a country like the UK. In Africa, we’ve installed over130,000 units with a total capacity of over 12GW, double the totalinstalled mains electricity capacity of Nigeria. With that number ofmachines operating across the world, we take no risks with quality orperformance. Assembling a generator set isn’t difficult, which is whywe’re seeing many new players today. The real value comes in the testingand validation before a product launch. We don’t accept engineperformance data without validating it ourselves in the environmentalconditions which our products will see. When someone buys one of ourproducts, we can safely say that wherever it will be operating, it will havebeen tested for that environment.

Also important is the way a generator set is sold. We have workedtirelessly to grow and develop a global network of over 300 distributorswho offer automotive industry levels of service starting with productselection through to installation and a lifetime of support. They’re

trained by us and supported by our parts system which stocks over11,500 parts and delivers three million parts a year, not only for ourcurrent products but also for legacy products.

Product testing, validation, establishing dealer channels and supportare more difficult to do well and over the last 50 years we believe we’veinvested more time and resources in all of these than most othergenerator set brands.

The generator set industry isn’t living on an island all on its own. Moreand more it’s feeling influence and behaviours from other industries. Weall expect more from what we buy. And that is going to drive change andscope for new products and services.

CAF: You mentioned the environment earlier. Does renewable powerenter into your plans?AB: It’s certainly in our thinking. Today in terms of cost per kVA,flexibility and responsiveness, there’s no better source of standby powerthan a diesel generator set. However, our parent company Caterpillar hasentered the microgrid market and is actively selling integrated systemswhere you might have solar panels, batteries, wind turbines andgenerator sets all linked and capable of powering remote settlements. Inregions like Africa and Asia, this has huge potential.

CAF: And you see great potential for the generator set industry?AB: Yes, definitely. All of us in the industry are feeling some economicturbulence right now, but there will always be a growing and insatiableneed for electric power. As the world goes more digital, we’re going to seeexponential growth in demand for electric power and for systems which actas standby for mains failure.�

FG Wilson managing director Ann Brown



Spanish genset manufacturer Himoinsa has a range of gensets dedicated to the telecoms industry that have been making their mark in Africa

Keeping telecoms talking

TELECOMS Power

OFTEN LOCATED IN isolated anddifficult-to-reach locations,telecom towers and theiroperations have to rely on backup

power systems such as gensets, to ensurethe vital services they supply can continueunabated. The remote nature of these towerscan mean that the period between engineervisits can be long and therefore the powersystems they rely on need to be efficient witha reduced reliance on maintenance.

Speaking to Communications Africa atMiddle East Electricity, an annual powerindustry trade fair held in Dubai earlier this year,Agustín Rodrigo, network developmentmanager at Himoinsa, said, “We have aspecialist range for the telecommunicationssector, featuring high-capacity fuel tanks andmaintenance of up to 1,000 hours. We canreduce the customers’ expenses, because ifyou’re using a genset in a remote place, themost expensive factor is sending an engineer tomaintain that machine. The labour and the costof transporting that labour to the remote placesthat many of these towers are located in Africacan be quite high.”

Himoinsa’s telecom range of gensets featureGPS systems to ensure that the machines canbe located at any time, as well as fuel levelalarms and remote management and remotecontrol features, enabling the operator to recordreal-time data and generate reports about eachpower systems’ operation.

In order to meet the unique demands ofgensets for the telecoms sector, especially inAfrica where access can often be tempered by alack of road infrastructure and difficult climaticconditions, Himoinsa has introduced a numberof Hybrid Power Solutions (HPS).

The HPS 1500DCV and HPS3000DCV hybridgenerator sets feature variable speed engines,which Himoinsa has said would guarantee a 40per cent fuel consumption savings whencompared to a standard generator set. Bothmodels also offer a 20 per cent fuel saving whencompared to other fixed-speed hybridgenerators sets available on the market,according to Himoinsa.

“If the conditions are dry and very hot, we uselithium batteries that can work in temperaturesof up to 55°C, and we can also add a small airconditioning unit inside the genset to help keepthe interior cool,” explained Rodrigo.

The canopies of Himoinsa’s gensets includean internal lining of rock wool, offering addedprotection and soundproofing, and all of itsgensets have been rated IP23 and haveundertaken water testing under Europeanregulation IEC60529.

“For our hybrid telecoms range we havedeveloped our own electronics, and through theDC generation we can directly charge thebatteries,” said Rodrigo. “Under the canopythere is a renewable energy box into which wecan connect 9 kW of solar PV panels. Everythingis managed by our own designed andmanufactured control system.

“Another thing that makes the differencebetween our competitors and ourselves is thevariable speed engine. We are using a Yanmarengine, but with a variable speed. When we arecharging batteries we have different demandsfor power, and that is dependent on the chargeof the batteries. A standard genset runs at fixedspeed, but with our system we are managingthe RPM of the engine in order to achieve thesame fuel consumption between 2-15kW. Itstays consistent, so we are saving fuel and costs.

“We are using Yanmar engines, which arevery good, heavy engines, with high efficiency,and we’re using our own canopies that featurehigh-quality paint, insulation, waterproofingand corrosion protection – everything inside thecanopy is well protected,” Rodrigo noted.

“The remote control and monitoring meanswe can help engineers save time as they areaware of the problems before they get to themachine,” Rodrigo stated. “And these gensetscan be monitored from anywhere in the world,no matter where they are located. If you are a company operating throughout Africa, you canhave a monitoring centre in one location fromwhere you can send instructions to an engineerin Kenya, in Nigeria or in South Africa withinformation on the repairs that may be requiredto the genset.”

Also for the communications sector,Himoinsa offers generators for applications indata centres, with the company’s technologyinstalled in a number of data centresworldwide. The company said its gensets offersuperior reliability and uninterrupted power –vital when keeping data in these facilitiesprotected and accessible, and ensuring powersupply is continuous.�

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By managing risks of fraud effectively through human skills and processes, operators can attract a bigger customer base in the continent

Tapping the mobilemoney market potential

COMMERCEFinancial Technology

ACCORDING TO THE World Bank, thenumber of unbanked individualsdropped 20 per cent between 2011-2014. However, despite this, a huge

38 per cent of the global population is stillwithout a bank account. With so manyunbanked, the recent industry developmentsin mobile money have been key for operatorsin developing regions, enabling them to bringthe concept of a bank to those who have notpreviously had access.

Similar to going to a bank to take out money,a mobile wallet gives users the ability toremove all of their savings and take them onthe go if needed, or to transfer this money torelatives all over the world. Mobile moneyprovides huge opportunities to unbankedpeople, giving them access to vital financialservices, and is steadily gaining momentumacross large numbers of developing regions. Insub-Saharan Africa, the initiative has gainedrapid traction, with the region being the onlyone in the world where more than 10 per cent ofadults have a mobile money account.

Despite mobile money’s many advantagesfraud is rife, meaning that operators in Africastill have a lot of work to do to protect vitalrevenues.

The challenges for operatorsSome of the biggest issues surroundingmobile money in developing regions such asAfrica stem from operators using legacysystems and processes, which havetraditionally not included the necessary toolsto regulate fraud, coupled with increased riskof highly sophisticated hackers. Mobilemoney, like voice or messaging, requiresprocesses, tools and opportunities tomonitor and regulate its services, andregulatory bodies can prove invaluable inhelping to prevent fraud and protect revenue.While regulatory bodies exist in most Africanregions, there are still a few countries such asSomalia, Sudan and Libya, which are lessregulated, or which opt not to enforceregulations, making it much easier for fraudto run rife.

Fraud issues are further compounded bythe fact that a large number of operators inthe region lack the necessary tools to identifyfraud. Instead, human skills and processesare needed to combat this issue, and since

fraudsters are becoming more advanced, it ismore important than ever that operatorsadapt their approach and deploy fraudmanagement software to underpin humanefforts.

On the other hand, being a less maturemarket also makes mobile money potentiallylucrative to telecoms providers in the region.However, while providing theseopportunities, market immaturity can also bea contributing factor in driving high instancesof fraud. For example, technical limitationscan lead to increased exposure to fraud.Unlike banks, mobile operators often haveless experience of processes, making them aneasy target for fraud schemes and revenueloss. Instead, mobile services today rely onagents. They start acting like branches ofbanks, with operators starting to providecash-in/cash-out payment transfers, similarto how traditional banks and agents provide aservice to the end-customer. So to put moneyinto their wallet, users need to go to a dealerto pay-in/out, subject to commission. Manymobile money services also transfer to thedealer and then lose out on the commission.To compete, they now need to focus onfinding alternative ways to make commissione.g. transactions to increase commission.

From an international point of view, manyless mature operators have low fraudprevention procedures in place. In a bank, forexample, a regular bank employee will havelimited access to customer data, dependingon their role within the organisation. Thisbehaviour is not standardised within manyoperators, and many examples of fraudrelated to mobile money comes from internalfraud, with fraudsters able to take moneyfrom different accounts and drain the moneythat is there. This happens as the oldestrisks were not assessed, and since thisservice lacks margins compared to otherservices, the risk is much higher.

Mobile data: business opportunityWhen fraud risks are managed effectively,mobile money presents a huge opportunity forboth operators and the huge swathes of thepopulation that are currently unbanked. Inparticular, regions with a lower GDP thanWestern nations, where the majority of peoplehave a bank account, afford operators theopportunity to offer Value Added Service, whilesimultaneously driving benefits for subscribers.

However, for mobile money to reach its fullpotential it is vital that operators tackle fraudhead on. If we take into account the billions ofdollars of fraud taking place worldwide, itsclear operators are losing vast amounts ofvaluable revenue and are at risk ofinadvertently linking themselves withfraudsters and fraud scandals. In Africa, and inany region looking to maximise the success ofmobile money, operators must thereforeensure that they first define rules and controls,and introduce software and structureprocesses to effectively mitigate risks andprotect the bottom line. �

Luís Moura Brás, senior professionalservices manager, fraud management,WeDo Technologies

Having joined the company at day one, MrBrás has held several roles in WeDoTechnologies’ Product Development andSystems Integration teams.Prior to this, Mr Brás worked at the mobileoperator Optimus, gaining 16 years’experience in the telecommunicationindustry.

Mobile money provides huge opportunities tounbanked people, giving them access to vitalfinancial services, and is steadily gainingmomentum across large numbers of developingregions (Photo: WorldRemit Comms/Flickr)



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Plus grand rassemblement annuel àl'échelle mondiale de la communautédes "TIC au service du développement",le Forum du SMSI est une tribunemondiale unique en son genre et unélément à part entière du processuspermanent du SMSI. Il est essentiel defournir un accès aux TIC équitable etfinancièrement abordable, en

particulier pour les pays en développement et les populations marginalisées, envue de parvenir à édifier une économie numérique véritablement inclusive. LeSMSI est le cadre dans lequel les TIC sont véritablement mises au service dudéveloppement, des groupes de multiples parties prenantes du monde entier s'yretrouvant pour échanger des bonnes pratiques et créer des partenariatsfondés sur la collaboration.

Le Forum est accueilli par l'UIT et organisé conjointement avec l'UNESCO, laCNUCED et le PNUD, en étroite collaboration avec les Nations Unies et d'autresinstitutions.

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À travers son API, Lemon Way offre une technologie de pointe enmatière de paiement. Mais au-delà de son expertise technologie, LemonWay vous offre une multitude de services complémentaires en terme deréglementation et de gestion.

La solution de paiement de Lemon Way contrôle le boarding de vosnouveaux marchands lors de l’entrée en relation, contrôle vos flux depaiement, sécurise les fonds non distribués et les cantonne sur uncompte approprié. Elle bénéficie d’une expérience en CrowdFundingPrêt, en CrowdFunding Equity, et en CrowdFunding don ou récompense.

Acceptez de multiples moyens de paiement. Sécurisez vos paiementsavec le 3D Secure sélectif. Lancez vos innovations mobiles dans lepaiement pour Smartphone, le paiement en un clic avec mémorisationdu numéro de carte bancaire, fluidifiez vos parcours de paiement avecnotre technologie.

Les équipes de Lemon Way répondront à votre demande en vousdemandant la formule la plus adaptée à votre activité. Ses services depaiement sont utilisés sur des sites Internet de eCommerce, des sitesInternet de cagnottes et de cadeaux communs, des sites Internet debilletterie, de paiement de services entre particuliers, sites de petitesannonces entre particuliers, ainsi que les nouveaux business liés àl’économie sociale et solidaire et à la nouvelle économie qui invente lefutur : co-voiturage, location de voiture entre particuliers, co-location,paiement contre remboursement, paiement mobile par téléphone,CrowdFunding prêt, CrowdFunding don, et CrowdFunding Equity.

LE DIGIWORLD YEARBOOK s’est imposé depuisplus de quinze ans comme le rapportincontournable du think tank IDATE DigiWorld,qui, chaque année, présente une analyse desdernières évolutions que connaissent lesmarchés des télécommunications, de l’internet etdes médias, et identifie les grandes tendances auniveau mondial et les scénarios pour le futur.À cette occasion, il organise un débat deprospective sur les tendances clés qui structurentl’économie numérique:• Digital economy & Internet 2025 : La confiance comme accélérateur

ou frein de la nouvelle économie numérique ?• Télécoms 2025 : Quelle place pour les (opérateurs) télécoms dans latransformation numérique de l’économie ?

• Télévision 2025 : Sommes-nous en train de vivre l’avènement d’unmarché mondial de la vidéo et de la télévision ?

Le grand débat de l’internet et des médias


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