{"id":31989,"date":"2013-03-02T01:09:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T23:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=31989"},"modified":"2013-03-02T01:11:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T23:11:44","slug":"dont-ignore-3g-networks-cisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/31989\/dont-ignore-3g-networks-cisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t ignore 3G networks: Cisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Cisco\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2037-Cisco\">Cisco<\/a> South Africa GM, <a title=\"Alpheus Mangale\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/6079-Alpheus-Mangale\">Alpheus Mangale<\/a> says that the transition from 3G to LTE is likely to be over a period of several years, and says operators should continue look for strategies and solutions that will enhance their existing networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMobile operators in South Africa are now realizing that if they are to succeed in today\u2019s communications landscape, they must address the quality of experience for their users,\u201d Mangale told BusinessTech in a written interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe transition from 3G to [LTE] is likely to be over a period of several years, as was and continues to be the case still with the transition from 2G to 3G.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, mobile operators in South Africa must look for strategies and solutions that will enhance their existing 3G networks, while addressing their [LTE] deployment requirements without requiring a \u2018forklift\u2019 upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>The Cisco SA lead said that the deployment of LTE is another step in the evolution of the mobile network.<\/p>\n<p>To this end, Cisco is working with mobile operators to provide the multimedia core network which is readily upgradeable to the requirements of another LTE architecture called Systems Architecture Evolution (SAE).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Cisco our entire focus is on the multimedia core network and the challenge it presents to the mobile operator.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Cisco<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"SA LTE mobile growth predictions\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/31646\/sa-lte-mobile-growth-predictions\/\"><strong>SA LTE mobile growth predictions<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"LTE subscriber numbers set to triple in 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/30149\/lte-subscriber-numbers-set-to-triple-in-2013\/\"><strong>LTE subscriber numbers set to triple in 2013<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cisco points to frightening growth in mobile traffic\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/31451\/cisco-points-to-frightening-growth-in-mobile-traffic\/\"><strong>Cisco points to frightening growth in mobile traffic<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco South Africa GM, Alpheus Mangale says that the transition from 3G to 4G is likely to be over a period of several years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1959,1358,26,525],"class_list":["post-31989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-alpheus-mangale","tag-cisco","tag-headline","tag-lte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31989"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32681,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31989\/revisions\/32681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}