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WAPA is offering the following two training courses in Cape Town: September 6 Monitoring your network using MikroTik's "The Dude" free network monitoring application • Network management intro • SNMP Theory • Pre-install network preparation • Obtaining and Installing The Dude • Initial Configuration • Network Scanning • Building your Network Layout • Client Monitoring Configuration • Dude Notifications • Dude as Netlog Server • Graphing performance • Building custom Functions Cost: R750 for WAPA members / R900 for

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WAPA offers a service to new members helping them with the licensing process. Once signed up, WAPA will assist you with the application and follow up on your behalf until the licences are issued. Go here to sign up.

WAPA has just released its latest census results. The results fill a valuable knowledge gap in the understanding of national broadband service provision and show strong growth in the sector, as WAPA members scramble to meet pent up demand for high-quality, cost-effective broadband in urban and rural areas. “We are gratified by the high involvement of members in our organisation, reflected in the 76% response rate in the census.

WAPA is positioned to be an interface between the government regulator (ICASA), network operators, service providers and wireless consumers. Executing on its commitment to putting the focus on South Africa’s Wireless Internet Service Providers’ role in bringing true broadband to South Africa, WAPA announces its main objectives for 2012. “Our focus will be to promote practical regulation of TV White Spaces by speaking at various conferences during the year,” states WAPA Chairperson Christopher Geerdts.

After some months of conceptualising and lots of hard work from the team at Blink Tower and much input from the WAPA Marketing working group, the eagerly awaited WAPA video has been released and is now LIVE on the WAPA homepage as well as the WAPA YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/wapasouthafrica The video is a 60-second explainer which briefly informs the viewer what WAPA can do for its members, how important it is to be a member, and the value WAPA