11 March 2026

Dawie de Wet, CEO of Q-KON

The South African and wider African telecommunication industries are highly regulated – and with good reason. It was this regulatory framework that underpinned the success of investments in mobile networks and ultimately, the incredible growth of mobile services across Africa. Yes, any regulatory framework should be dynamic and able to adapt to changing circumstances in order to achieve a balance between incorporating emerging technologies and protecting national interests. However, there is also strength to be found in a certain degree of rigidity.

06 March 2026

Ralph Berndt, Executive Head of Sales and Marketing at inq. South Africa

Some may ask how EdgeSentry fits into the data centre discussion. The answer is simple: you can build the most advanced, perfectly cooled, and redundantly powered facility imaginable, but if the final stretch of connectivity to the branch is fragile or unaffordable, uptime becomes a theory, not a reality. In Africa, that last kilometre is where reliability and cost collide, and where the success of every SLA is ultimately decided.

Across the region, we still contend with fibre breaks, uneven last-mile coverage, and intermittent power that push downtime risk onto the enterprise WAN. That is not an indictment of local operators but a design reality. Imported SD-WAN solutions typically assume stable fibre, perpetual power, and dollar-based licensing, which makes them costly to own and slow to support here. The result is a performance and budget gap that branch IT teams live with every day. That is the gap EdgeSentry was built to close.