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Main One Cable Project Begins, Internet access To Expand In West African Region

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With the commencement of the Main One Cable Project, Nigeria, Ghana and the rest of Africa are set to experience a major boost in Internet access and a hefty reduction in tariffs. In what is clearly a major milestone especially for the West Africa sub-region, Main One Cable System, has acquired the first ever issued under-sea cable system landing licence in West Africa. In addition, the pioneering organisation has made the requisite contractual payments to Tyco Telecommunications who will implement both phases of the project on a turnkey basis. Work has therefore begun on the massive intercontinental submarine fibre optic cable project.

 

The Main One cable project is an ambitious under-sea fibre optic cabling project that will extend from Portugal to the West and Southern Coasts of Africa, respectively. The first phase of the project will span 6,900 kilometres, extending from Portugal to Nigeria and Ghana on the West Coast of Africa. The second phase is expected to extend by another 6,000 kilometres to South Africa and Angola. Using Dense Wave Multiplexing technology of 1.28 Terabits per second with two fibre pairs, the Main One cable is designed to deliver more capacity to the region than any of the other existing or proposed under-sea fibre projects.

 

In addition to considerably enhancing broadband access the Main One cable project will help to crash tariffs significantly. It will provide open access to regional telecom operators and Internet Service Providers at rates that are less than twenty percent of current international bandwidth tariffs obtainable via SAT 3 or satellite service operators.

 

The Main One project will also drive job provision across the continent.

 

Tyco Telecommunications  is a business unit of Tyco Electronics and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology which has in more than 50 years of operation, designed, manufactured and installed more than 80 undersea fibre optic systems around the world.

SIGNAL ALLIANCE Wins 2011 Microsoft Country Partner Of The Year Award

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Ejiofor Agada
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Signal Alliance, one of Nigeria’s leading IT solution providers, has won the prestigious Microsoft Country Partner of the year award for Nigeria 2011 at the recently concluded World Partner Conference in Los Angeles. Signal Alliance was rewarded for providing outstanding solutions and services, as well as demonstrating excellent subsidiary engagement in Nigeria for Microsoft.

 

According to Jon Rodskill, corporate vice president, worldwide partner group, Microsoft Corporation “we are pleased to recognize Signal Alliance Nigeria as Microsoft country partner of the year. Signal Alliance demonstrates commitment to serving its customers and our strong partnership is core to our winning together”.

 

The chief executive of Signal Alliance, Mr. Collins Onuegbu, while acknowledging the award, praised Microsoft Corporation for the initiative to reward hard work and encouraged healthy competition when it comes to IT solutions development.

 

He reiterated the vision of Signal Alliance and the resolve to achieve excellent service delivery. His words: “This award is a testimony to the hard-work and dedication of the Signal Alliance team and we are really happy that Microsoft Corporation given us due recognition. This award also throws up a challenge to keep and exceed our standards for next year to remain in the number one position.”

 

He further stated that Signal Alliance prides itself with its vast years of experience and the thorough understanding of the IT business landscape and the combination of appropriate technology to meet the surging needs of its numerous IT based customers. According to him, “this award surely keeps us on our toes, to confront whatever challenges, and most especially bring to mind, our sole aspiration to stay at the top”.

 

The Microsoft awards, which comes up during the yearly World Partner Conference, seeks to honour partners at country level, who have demonstrated business excellence in delivering Microsoft solutions to mutual customers over the past years.

 

The award recognizes Signal Alliance as succeeding in effective engagement with their local Microsoft office, while showcasing innovation, business impact, driving customer satisfaction and winning new customers.

 

Signal Alliance is one of the leading Systems Integrators in Nigeria and currently holds Gold competencies in Microsoft Solutions. In addition to this, they provide enterprise solutions in core ICT areas such as Unified Communications, Borderless Networks solutions and Network Monitoring, Service Management and Assurance, Enterprise Resource Planning and mobile applications.

Nokia Sales And Revenue Tumbled, RIM’s Blackberry Market Struggling, But Apple Rules

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Olawale Bakare
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As regard the two giants phone makers – Nokia ( NYSE: NOK)  and Research In Motion (RIM)  market situations. Indeed, they are facing difficult situation in the world of smartphone presently, are Android phones and Apple’s iPhones responsible for this smartphone market’s misfortune to these phone giants? Well may be.

 

For instance, Nokia has been seen as an icon to Finland – country with population of about 5+ millions.  Perhaps Nokia (NYSE: NOK)  is the largest contributor to gross domestic product (GDP) of Finnish people, until recently the world leading phone maker is being disliked from its homeland, why? According to some reports, Nokia is currently building a new manufacturing plant in Vietnam and that means thousands of job loss in its 2 centers in Finland. So pathetic to the Finns.

 

Nokia Market Situation

Nokia posted a £320million loss – the day after main rival Apple unveiled record quarterly profits. Revenue fell seven percent to £8.2billion from £8.8billion last year. In contrast, Apple announced net income of £4.51billion for the quarter 125 percent higher than a year ago.  It overtook Nokia in the smartphone sector – selling 20million iPhones compared with its rivals’ 16.7million smartphones.

Nokia shipped 88.5million mobile devices between April and June, down from 111million a year ago and 108.5million in the previous quarter.

According to Nokia Chief Executive, Stephen Elop said: “the challenges we are facing during our strategic transformation manifested in a greater than expected way during the quarter. However, I believe our actions to mitigate the impact of these challenges have started to have a positive impact on the underlying health of our business.

 

RIM’s Blackberry Market Situation

The Canadian based smartphone manufacturer – Research in Motion (RIM) is planning to shed its workforce globally by 11%, which means 2,000 jobs cut. According to reports:

Job losses were a prudent and necessary step for RIM’s long-term health, but that has not factored the cost of redundancy pay-offs into its forecasts for the current financial year. It will give details of the financial impact of the cuts when it reports in September.

RIM’s share price slumped 4.32% to $26.73 last week trading in New York. RIM has performed well in the past because of business demand for its handsets, such as the Blackberry Curve, which are quick to use for email and more secure than other models. According to some analysts, viewed “ Blackberry has struggled to broaden their appeal to the general consumers, who tend to prioritize touch-screen functionality over security. It has done well in the enterprise market because it’s very secure and easy to manage, but most people don’t simply care about that”

 

With Apple gearing up to launch new iPhone perhaps a mini –iphone, an affordable price for the larger percentage of developing and emerging markets.  May be towards the last quarter of this year 2011, Apple may strike another blow to Nokia and RIM and Google’s Android platform smartphones. Should they all concede defeat to Apple as the new market leader of smartphone to emerge soon? What do you think?

Research And Training On FPGA, Embedded Systems, VLSI, PCB, And More

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Education is constantly evolving as a result of emerging technologies which are shaping global commerce and industry. Fasmicro understands this change and the enormous challenges faced by businesses and school administrators to not only meet the needs, but to exceed the expectations of customers, students and parents (and indeed society). In this era with constant technological disruptions, meeting the needs and expectations are not just enough, understanding the perceptions of customers and students, is very vital.

This is a new century and new technologies will constantly evolve new industries, markets and economies. Innovation matters and training must be central to any strategy. Fasmicro assists schools, companies and institutions to develop a holistic technical training model. We understand that innovative technological applications, new policies, optimized processes are catalysts that enable educators to improve technical educational achievement.

Besides training and education, Fasmicro is positioned in all major areas of microelectronics and semiconductor research. We help clients look at data as well as develop strategies in technical research. In our networks are PhD graduates from top engineering schools and will help you stay ahead of competition by helping to shape your next generation products.

We provide custom training on all areas of VLSI in both analog and digital systems. We have licensed CAD tools for VLSI designs and printed circuit board (PCB) education. We sell and support all major brands of FPGA boards such as Xilinx, Altera, etc. Our unique service provides free two-day offsite training if a client buys CAD, FPGA/VHDL, Demo boards and labware from us. We also train on embedded systems and microprocessor programming and extend that knowledge to robotics. We are master coders on Microchip and Parallax microprocessor families. We cover from design physics to testing.

These are some of the areas we train/educate clients:

  • VLSI (analog and digital)
  • VHDL and FPGA
  • Printed Circuit Board (PCB)
  • MEMS/BioMEMS
  • Embedded systems and microprocessor programming
  • Robotics
  • CAD Training for schematics, layout, etc

 

For more on Fasmicro Training and Research, visit here.

 

Our Apology For Service Failures – We’re Fixing Them

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Tekedia Editors
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By now, you must have noticed that Tekedia goes down about twice daily. We are still trying to figure out where the bug is coming from. We are looking at everything to ensure we solve this problem.

 

Please if you notice the site to be down, please come back in few minutes. We hope to get this sorted out as it is impacting our user experience. For those that have written, be assured we have heard.

 

We sincerely apologize.

 

Tekedia Team

Lagos, Nigeria

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