{"id":665109,"date":"2023-02-22T13:50:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T11:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=665109"},"modified":"2023-02-22T13:50:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T11:50:55","slug":"business-talk-shamith-maharaj-of-bcx-unpacks-the-benefits-of-autonomous-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/665109\/business-talk-shamith-maharaj-of-bcx-unpacks-the-benefits-of-autonomous-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Shamith Maharaj of BCX unpacks the benefits of autonomous networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shamith Maharaj is the Executive of Data Networks at BCX.<\/p>\n<p>Maharaj is a self-motivated individual who has 18 years of global telecommunications experience.<\/p>\n<p>This experience spans fields like project management, network design, network activations, network operations, network management, IT management, and service assurance.<\/p>\n<p>One of the hallmarks of Maharaj\u2019s career has been building strong relationships with customers and suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>This has helped him to improve the overall customer experience wherever he has worked.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Business Talk, Maharaj discusses autonomous networks \u2013 unpacking what they are and what benefits they provide.<\/p>\n<p>He also explains how autonomous networks are different from automated networks \u2013 and why autonomous networks are superior.<\/p>\n<p>Maharaj then discusses whether Africa is ready to adopt autonomous networking before finishing the interview by explaining how businesses can begin their autonomous networking journey with BCX.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Maharaj can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Ibkx8meUXk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BCX\u2019s Shamith Maharaj discusses autonomous networks \u2013 including what they are and what benefits they provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":666949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[4445,15578,17811],"class_list":["post-665109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-bcx","tag-business-talk","tag-shamith-maharaj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665109","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=665109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667083,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665109\/revisions\/667083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}