Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 22 | Page 53

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Van Niekerk says Metacom’s new MC6000 Enterprise Router, the latest in a range of network devices the company has designed and manufactured, is a key component of their ability to roll out future services. “Like our previous routers, it can link every remote point into a seamless network regardless of whether connectivity is supplied by fibre, LTE, ADSL, satellite or even www.intelligentcio.com radio,” he said. “We know power supply reliability is an issue in many places, so it has dual power supplies. It has integrated multimedia capability to play in-store Internet radio and video and ample processing capability for edge computing. And you can control many of the advanced features from a smartphone app, even if you’re in Cape Town and the router is in Luanda.” n FEATURE: SDN Metacom CEO, Réan van Niekerk INTELLIGENTCIO 53