The Africa Net5.5G IP Gala Summit, themed “Convey Net5.5G to Actuality, Encourage New Progress”, concluded efficiently as a part of the twenty seventh AfricaCom occasion in Cape City.
Main carriers from Southern Africa, trade organisations, authorities businesses and gadget distributors got here collectively to share use instances on the evolution to Net5.5G converged IP networks and trade digitalisation.
In the course of the summit, the World Broadband Affiliation (WBBA), the IPv6 Discussion board, the African Telecommunications Union (ATU), Expertise Service Suppliers of Kenya (Tespok), Nationwide Data Expertise Growth Company (NITDA), MTN Group and MTN South Africa collectively launched the Africa Net5.5G Motion Plan Initiative. This calls on trade stakeholders to speed up the business roll-out of Net5.5G and foster its prosperity. Southern Africa has change into the primary area to implement the UBBF Net5.5G Pioneer Programme.
John Omo, secretary-general of the ATU, emphasised that Africa stands at a pivotal juncture in its digital transformation. Embracing Net5.5G will permit the continent to construct extra resilient and versatile community infrastructure that caters to the various wants of the AI period. Moreover, this technological leap will assist handle more and more rising site visitors, bridge the digital divide and foster sustainable growth.
Tayeb Meriem, chair of WBBA’s Community Expertise Workgroup shared insights into international community growth tendencies within the AI period and provided recommendations for additional evolution. He identified that carriers and enterprise clients require a differentiated expertise from networks as bandwidth necessities and the variety of connections for functions like AI-generated content material are continuously climbing. Carriers’ present brownfield knowledge communication networks are inappropriate for assembly these bandwidth-hungry AI functions.
To deal with these challenges, WBBA outlined the Net5.5G goal structure, together with Wi-Fi 7, 400GE/800GE bearer community, AI knowledge centre community and community digital map, to assist carriers upgrading their networks to construct a high-speed and high-quality community infrastructure.
On the summit, main international carriers together with MTN Group and MTN South Africa shared their business use instances of Net5.5G. Magatho Mello, MTN Group GM of multinational shoppers shared that his workforce is proactively executing its B2B technique and is delighted to accomplice with Huawei in delivering safe multi-branch connectivity to clients via the modern SASE resolution. This may additional consolidate MTN’s main place in Africa’s enterprise market because the roll-out of Net5.5G gathers tempo, enabling clients to expedite their clever transformation.
Zoltan Miklos, GM of community planning at MTN South Africa, shared finest practices for Net5.5G IP networks. He mentioned MTN South Africa helps the Internet 5.5G community structure framework, actively implements business deployment of key applied sciences corresponding to 400GE, community digital map and SRv6, and strives to construct high-quality IP networks within the AI period to offer glorious service expertise for customers.
Within the AI period, mature and strong technical requirements, coupled with main Net5.5G options, are essential. In keeping with Alvaro Retana, vp of technique planning at Futurewei, key Net5.5G requirements like 400GE, SRv6, community digital map and community slicing have reached maturity and are being deployed at scale, making them optimum applied sciences for IP networks on this new period.
Kaiyin Zhu, director of Huawei’s knowledge communication requirements and patents division, delivered a speech titled “Net5.5G Converged IP Community, Inspiring New Progress”. In his speech, Zhu highlighted that together with the improve to Net5.5G, Huawei will assist carriers construct Net5.5G converged IP networks to stimulate new progress by leveraging key capabilities corresponding to 400GE/800GE, elastic expertise assurance primarily based on SRv6 and slicing, and ADN L4–powered community digital map.
For Net5.5G to thrive, governments should present trade coverage steerage, and carriers should proceed to assemble Net5.5G networks.
To speed up the business deployment of Net5.5G in Southern Africa, the Net5.5G Pioneer Programme Award Ceremony was held on the summit. MTN South Africa, Econet Zimbabwe and Vuma South Africa received the Net5.5G Business Pioneer Award in recognition of their 400GE, SRv6 and community digital map deployment, whereas the Communications Authority of Kenya and Nigeria’s NITDA received the Net5.5G Coverage Pioneer Award in recognition of their IPv6 migration coverage and future community infrastructure coverage.
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