Staying connected: Wi-Fi in the sky

05 September 2019

Wi-Fi in the sky has landed to the sound of relieved business passengers in Africa.

That’s because in 2018, US consumer products and engineering conglomerate Honeywell completed the first installations of its JetWave satellite communications hardware on African aircraft.

As the need for humans to be constantly connected increases, so has the pressure to have inflight Wi-Fi systems on the world’s airlines – big, small and boutique. 

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From football to the emergency services

07 March 2019

A network originally introduced for crowd control at the 2010 FIFA World Cup is now saving lives and detecting criminals.

Just a few years before the turn of the millennium, the general consensus was that the conventional analogue radio network used by what is now South Africa’s City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality was in urgent need of updating.

The Pretoria skyline, the largest place of the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (City of Tshwane)

The Pretoria skyline, the largest place of the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (City of Tshwane)

 

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