XON has been honoured as the Juniper Networks Partner of the Year for South Africa at the company’s awards event held in Dubai in December, 2013.
GM of Networking at systems integrator and ICT solutions business XON, Anthony Laing, says it is the many successes the company has had through deals and market development throughout sub-Sahara Africa during 2013 that led to the award.
“We strategically invested in Juniper technologies going back as far as 2005, when the brand had little traction in the South African and sub-Saharan markets,” says Laing.
“Since then we’ve taken it into some key accounts such as several tier one mobile and fixed line network operators in South Africa, Namibia, Mauritius, Botswana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Kenya, Guinea Conakry, and several other African countries. We have also deployed pan-African research and education networks, uniting these institutions from across 14 African countries with 50 million people at their counterparts in Europe.”
XON’s solutions have been deployed at the core of fixed and mobile networks to enable new services, increase relevance to end users, increase revenues per user and simultaneously improve the quality of networks and the services they deliver.
Some of the types of solutions include deep packet inspection (DPI) for ascertaining what type of content which users are consuming or sharing coupled to intelligent billing systems like those used to manage voice calls.
It allows network operators to provide granular data services so that consumers can buy specific YouTube bandwidth, for example, or bandwidth for Netflix. That way they may pay a premium but they get a much better quality of service suited to the content.
“Winning the award is an obvious feather in our cap because it’s testament to the fact that we’re leading the market with these networking and telecommunications solutions in South Africa through the solutions we’ve deployed into sub-Saharan Africa,” says Laing.
