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“Connectivity is not just a by-product of progress – it’s a crucial enabler” Since the dawn of the Internet age, the technology that allows us to connect has evolved at a rapid pace. From dial-up access to DSL or cable broadband – and now to fibre optic connections –...

Mobile phones and smartphones in particular, have been one of the biggest disruptors of business the world has ever seen. Not only have they enabled the always-on connectivity that is a feature of today’s corporate environment, they have been responsible for the...

A world where employees are office bound and remain at their desks is a thing of the past. Today’s workers are everywhere. They’re at coffee shops, at home, on the road, overseas - and working from a plethora of devices. While this mobile workforce has brought...

Unified communications (UC) is helping employees be more productive, collaborative, effective, and efficient, and having a positive impact on the business. It brings all these different ways of communicating into a single interface, and boosts productivity through...

Much has been written about the benefits of Unified Communications (UC): Improved collaboration, better communications, and, of course, increased ROI. However, many of the conversations around UC have been focused on the technology for technology’s sake, or around the...

It is all too easy to think that when the network becomes increasingly sluggish, that an infrastructure upgrade is needed to maintain acceptable speeds. More often than not, the problem is not that your users spend too much time downloading cat videos, but more likely...

There was a time when corporate South Africa wanted little more from their telecoms suppliers than a basic telephone service.

With the advent of cloud computing, network virtualisation and on-demand technology services are changing the way we use IT.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a much vaunted near-future technological scenario that is usually depicted as an environment of

by Eduard du Plessis, CEO of EOH Network Solutions Division Several developments point to a very near future scenario in which the fixed LAN that has become the de facto standard is completely replaced by wireless technology. The main driver of this is, of course,...

By Eduard du Plessis – Managing Director of EOH Network Solutions A deluge of data is drowning today’s enterprises, and only businesses with their own extensive next generation networks (NGNs) will be best equipped to meet that deluge. In the next few years, it is...

by Eduard du Plessis, MD of EOH Network Solutions Division Many companies around the world are battling to manage the performance of complex corporate networks that span vast territories and are made up of thousands of end points. As they try to keep up with the pace...