Compaq gears up for telecommunications market in Africa
In line with corporate global strategy, Compaq has increased its focus
in the Telecommunications market in South Africa and has established a
separate line of business to focus on this burgeoning market.
Allan Johns, Telecommunications Business Development Manager at Compaq,
comments, ""With the Wireless industry exploding across Africa and new
cellular operators entering the market, Compaq through it's Tandem and
Digital heritage, brings to the table decades of experience in building
close, co-operative relationships that span every phase of the
telecommunications product and solution life cycle. We offer the
industry the most complete "out of the box" portfolio and suite of
applications available to the industry today."
The converging telecommunications market fits with Compaq's vision and
mission statement of "Everything to the Internet" and includes a host
of eBusiness potential linked to the Internet space.
"Compaq dominates this 'space' both in South Africa and in a global
capacity. The world's top telecom operators use Compaq products and
locally we have a strong presence in both the Wireline and Wireless
markets as well as the ISP space.
"Through the acquisition of Digital Equipment (Alpha technology) and
Tandem (Himalaya technology) plus Compaq's traditional product
offering, we are able to offer the best value proposition in the Telco
space today and into the future. Through our industry leading solution
and applications partners, we are able to deliver a service offering to
meet any demand in the Communications environment, be it a small new
entrant or an existing large operator."
These solutions embrace Business Support Systems (BSS) comprising
billing, fraud management, business intelligence, mediation, Customer
Relationship Management, and churn management. Enhanced Networking
Services (ENS) including intelligent network (IN) platforms and
services and Operation Support Systems (OSS) network/ service /element
management, including fault and repair management
"We have taken these platforms and combined them into a total
end-to-end value proposition spanning the broadest telecommunications
requirements." Johns believes that telecommunications is becoming the
business enabler of the future by virtue of the fact that without
communications business cannot be conducted.
As technology changes from switched infrastructures to packet
switching, a broader range of services can be offered over IP as
opposed to traditional circuit switched technology.
"The big move is towards third generation networking where sufficient
bandwidth will be made available allowing Internet access from a
handset. "It's interesting to note that South Africa is at the leading
edge of Communications - and sometimes the driving edge of new
technologies. We are at the forefront of banking as well, and as the
two markets converge to exploit the eBusiness opportunities that lie
ahead, technologies such as GPRS WAP and UMTS will be pioneering the
way. Today, financial institutions are in the process of forming
partnerships with telecommunications companies and Compaq is
well-positioned to provide the infrastructure required to meet their IT
needs as well as ready to deploy solutions" says Johns.
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