WAPALOZA Conference
Gauteng premium connectivity event of the year
24 - 26 October 2022
09:00 am
Misty Hills Hotel & Conference Centre, Muldersdrift, Gauteng
You can look forward to a rare industry networking opportunity with a great line up of international and local speakers, all experts in their respective industries
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About WAPALOZA Conference
Gauteng premium connectivity event created with your needs in mind. Three days of international and local speakers discussing what is of importance to you, what is happening elsewhere in the world and what do you need to do to not only survive this new reality but thrive. Network with your peers, the DCDT and Icasa.
At the same time attend the exhibition of the latest developments in equipment, meet your suppliers and have individual discussions.
Conference Theme:
Survive and Thrive! Embrace the Future
Schedule and Agenda
You can look forward to a rare industry networking opportunity with a great line up of international and local speakers, all experts in their respective industries.
Connectivity being provided by RUSH Network
08:00
Session 1: Registration
Wapaloza
09:00 - 09:30
Session 2: WAPA Welcome and Opening
WAPA
09:30 - 09:45
Session 3: The next 10 years…Wireless a very relevant and important part of the connected future
Eduard du Plessis - Fixed Mobile Telecoms
9:45 - 10:30
Session 4: Survive and Thrive in the second half of the chess board
Paul Colmer - WAPA
10:30 - 10:50
Session 5: Five ways to ensure your business grows in 2023
Ryan Dunford - Miro Distribution
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee - Exhibition hall
11:20 - 11:50
Session 6: What is going on in the US with all the Broadband money
Nathan Stooke - Wisper
11:50 - 12:10
Session 7: Microwave is Microwave is Microwave
Riyaaz Kerbelker - Afren
12:10 - 12:30
Session 8: The foundation for next generation networking
Eduard du Plessis / Rickus Jansen - Fixed Mobile Telecoms
12:30 - 12:40
Session 9: Open access Rush video
Rocky Cotze - Rush networks
12:40 - 13:00
Session 10: Cambium's Value Proposition
Wayne Wiblin - Cambium
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch -Misty Hills restaurant
14:00 - 14:40
Session 11: Opportunities and lifelines for WAPA
Walter Brown - Sakan
14:40 - 15:00
Session 12: Telrad from 10,000 feet
Johan Crause - Telrad
15:00 - 15:30
Tea - Exhibition hall
15:30 - 16:00
Session 13: Unlocking spectrum access in rural areas
Steve Song - Mozilla Foundation
16:00 - 16:30
Session 14: Understanding satellite Technology part one
Jens Langenhorst - Specialized RF
16:30 - 16:45
Session 15: Prizes and giveaways
WAPA
16:45
Day 1 closes
08:00
Session 1: Registration
Wapaloza
09:00 - 09:30
Session 2: What the future holds for WiFi
Claus Hetting - WiFi Now
09:30 - 09:50
Session 3: Tarana 'The next generation of fixed wireless'
Mike Calabrese - Tarana
09:50 - 10:10
Session 4: Succeed in competing with large Telco's and build a profitable business
Alex Vishnaykov - Splynx
10:10 - 10:30
Session 5: Silver sponsor presentation
Peter Turvey - Radwin
10:30 - 10:50
Session 6: Against the ropes. How much punishment can your business take before it fails'
Bradley Janse van Rensbuerg - Ultra Data Centres
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee - Exhibition hall
11:20 - 11:40
Session 7: Using customer experience to to challenge the fibre providers
Terry Sanderson - Adcomtec
11:40 - 12:00
Session 8: Monetizing township WiFi internet through VulaCoin
Cornelius Greyling - Vulacoin
12:00 - 12:20
Session 9: SS Telecoms: A specialised partner for growing a Wisp.
Dean Prinsloo - SS Telecom
12:20 - 12:40
Session 11: Solutions by Function
Ruaal Tromp - Switchcom
12:40 - 13:00
Session 12: Spectrum & WiFi 6E global trends and South Africa
Martha Suarez, Mark Rotter - Dynamic spectrum Alliance
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch - Misty Hills restaurant
14:00 - 14:30
Session 13: What the hell is going on ?
Dominic Cull - Ellipsis Regulatory
14:30 - 15:00
Session 14: Cloud - Surviving Between the Rains
David Brooks - Liquid Intelligent Technologies
15:00 - 15:30
Tea
15:30 - 16:30
Session 15: Panel discussion WiFi 6E and WiFi 7
Host Paul Colmer , Panel Martha Suarez ,Steve Song, Nathan Stooke, Claus Hetting , Tim Genders
16:30 - 16:45
Session 16: Prizes and giveaways
16:45
Day 2 closes
08:00
Session 1: Registration
Wapaloza
9:00 - 9:20
Session 2: Wispa US
Nathan Stooke - Wispa
9:20 - 9:50
Session 3: Unlicensed private LTE and beyond
Johan Crause - TelRad
9:50 - 10:10
Session 4: Why its an exciting time to be a Wisp.
Calab Chetty - Miro Distribution
10:10 - 10:30
Session 5: How to become part of the next generation future
Eduard du Plessis / Rikus Jansen - Fixed mobile Telecoms
10:30 - 10:50
Session 6: CSIR UNDP TV whitespace project
Luzango Mfupe - CSIR
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee
11:20 - 11:40
Session 7: Where is Wapa now ?
Lesley Colmer - WAPA
11:40 - 11:50
Session 8: WAPA TV whitespace trial Project completion
Paul Colmer - WAPA
11:50 - 12:20
Session 9: Survive and thrive Wisp panel
David Anderson, Riaan Maree, Nathan Stooke, Albie Augustyn - Panel discussion
12:20 - 12:40
Session 10: Opportunities & challenges with unlicensed bands.
Claus Hetting - WiFi Now
12:40 - 13:00
Session 11: Open Mike Q&A
Paul Colmer - WAPA
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch - Misty Hills restaurant
14:00 - 14:30
Session 12: WiFi hotspots ' the biggest Wisp opportunity
Shireen Powell - WAPA
14:30 - 15:00
Session 13: Panel discussion: Exploring backhaul & middle mile
Riyaaz Kerbelker, Jens Langenhorst
15:00 - 15:30
Tea
15:30 - 16:15
Session 14: Satellites & LEO start ups, 'Friend or Foe, part 2 of the Wisp?
Jens Langenhorst - Specialised RF
16:15 - 16:30
Session 15: Prizes and giveaways
Paul Colmer - WAPA
16:30
Day 3 closes
08:00
Session 1: Registration
Wapaloza
09:00 - 09:30
Session 2: WAPA Welcome and Opening
WAPA
09:30 - 09:45
Session 3: The next 10 years… Wireless a very relevant and important part of the connected future
Eduard du Plessis - Fixed Mobile Telecoms
9:45 - 10:30
Session 4: Survive and Thrive in the second half of the chess board
Paul Colmer - WAPA
10:30 - 10:50
Session 5: Five ways to ensure your business grows in 2023
Ryan Dunford - Miro Distribution
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee - Exhibition hall
11:20 - 11:50
Session 6: What is going on in the US with all the Broadband money
Nathan Stooke - Wisper
11:50 - 12:10
Session 7: Microwave is Microwave is Microwave
Riyaaz Kerbelker - Afren
12:10 - 12:30
Session 8: The foundation for next generation networking
Eduard du Plessis / Rickus Jansen - Fixed Mobile Telecoms
12:30 - 12:40
Session 9: Open accesss Rush video
Rocky Cotze - Rush networks
12:40 - 13:00
Session 10: Cambium's Value Proposition
Wayne Wiblin - Cambium
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch - Misty Hills restaurant
14:00 - 14:40
Session 11: Opportunities and lifelines for WAPA
Walter Brown - Sakan
14:40 - 15:00
Session 12: Telrad from 10,000 feet
Johan Crause - Telrad
15:00 - 15:30
Tea - Exhibition hall
15:30 - 16:00
Session 13: Unlocking spectrum access in rural areas
Steve Song - Mozilla Foundation
16:00 - 16:30
Session 14: Understanding satellite Technology part one
Jens Langenhorst - Specialized RF
16:30 - 16:45
Session 15: Prizes and giveaways
WAPA
16:45
Day 1 closes
08:00
Session 1: Registration
Wapaloza
09:00 - 09:30
Session 2: What the future holds for WiFi
Claus Hetting - WiFi Now
09:30 - 09:50
Session 3: Tarana 'The next generation of fixed wireless'
Mike Calabrese - Tarana
09:50 - 10:10
Session 4: Suceed in competeting with large Telco's and build a profitable business
Alex Vishnaykov - Splynx
10:10 - 10:30
Session 5: Silver sponsor presentation
Peter Turvey - Radwin
10:30 - 10:50
Session 6: Against the ropes. How much punishment can your business take before it fails'
Bradley Janse van Rensbuerg - Ultra Data Centres
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee - Exhibition hall
11:20 - 11:40
Session 7: Using customer experience to to challenge the fibre providers
Terry Sanderson - Adcomtec
11:40 - 12:00
Session 8: Monetizing township WiFi internet through VulaCoin
Cornelius Greyling - Vulacoin
12:00 - 12:20
Session 9: SS Telecoms: A specialised partner for growing a Wisp.
Dean Prinsloo - SS Telecom
12:20 - 12:40
Session 11: Solutions by Function
Ruaal Tromp - Switchcom
12:40 - 13:00
Session 12: Spectrum & WiFi 6E global trends and South Africa
Martha Suarez, Mark Rotter - Dynamic spectrum Alliance
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch - Misty Hills restaurant
14:00 - 14:30
Session 13: What the hell is going on ?
Dominic Cull - Ellipsis Regulatory
014:30 - 15:00
Session 14: Cloud - Surviving Between the Rains
David Brooks - Liquid Intelligent Technologies
15:00 - 15:30
Tea
15:30 - 16:30
Session 15: Panel discussion WiFi 6E and WiFi 7
Host Paul Colmer , Panel Martha Suarez ,Steve Song, Nathan Stooke, Claus Hetting , Tim Genders
16:30 - 16:45
Session 16: Prizes and giveaways
16:45
Day 2 closes
08:00
Sesson 1: Registration
Wapaloza
9:00 - 9:20
Session 2: Wispa US
Nathan Stooke - Wispa
9:20 - 9:50
Session 3: Unlicensed private LTE and beyond
Johan Crause - TelRad
9:50 - 10:10
Session 4: Why its an exciting time to be a Wisp.
Calab Chetty - Miro Distribution
10:10 - 10:30
Session 5: How to become part of the next generation future
Eduard du Plessis / Rikus Jansen - Fixed mobile Telecoms
10:30 - 10:50
Session 6: CSIR UNDP TV whitespace project
Luzango Mfupe - CSIR
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee
11:20 - 11:40
Session 7: Where is Wapa now ?
Lesley Colmer - WAPA
11:40 - 11:50
Session 8: WAPA TV whitespace trial Project completion
Paul Colmer - WAPA
11:50 - 12:20
Session 9: Survive and thrive Wisp panel
David Anderson, Riaan Maree, Nathan Stooke, Albie Augustyn - Panel discussion
12:20 - 12:40
Session 10: Opportunities & challenges with unlicensed bands.
Claus Hetting - WiFi Now
12:40 - 13:00
Session 11: Open Mike Q&A
Paul Colmer - WAPA
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch - Misty Hills restaurant
14:00 - 14:30
Session 12: WiFi hotspots ' the biggest Wisp opportunity
Shireen Powell - WAPA
14:30 - 15:00
Session 13: Panel discussion: Exploring backhaul & middle mile
Riyaaz Kerbelker, Jens Langenhorst
15:00 - 15:30
Tea
15:30 - 16:15
Session 14: Satellites & LEO start ups, 'Friend or Foe, part 2 of the Wisp?
Jens Langenhorst - Specialised RF
16:15 - 16:30
Session 15: Prizes and giveaways
Paul Colmer - WAPA
16:30
Day 3 closes
Featured Speakers
Come meet in person and hear from some of the leading thinkers in our industry.
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Eduard Du Plessis
Eduard Du Plessis
CEO Fixed Mobile Telecoms
Eduard may be a telecommunications specialist, but he’s better known for his serial offenses in business entrepreneurship.
We call him the “The Disruptor”.
- founder and CEO: Fixed Mobile
- founder and CEO: EOH Network Solutions
- founder and CEO: AfricaINX
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Dominic Cull
Dominic Cull
Ellipsis Regulatory
Masters in electronics law as a foundation to extensive experience in all aspects of telecommunications law and regulation.
Owner Ellipsis Regulatory Solutions
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Shireen Powell
Shireen Powell
CEO Project Isizwe
Driven by her passion for people and social justice, and fuelled by her belief in the power technology has to change our world, and the possibilities that are unlocked through connectedness.
Changing lives in communities is why we wake up every day. We believe that everyone deserves equitable access to the internet and we work to make this possible. Connecting communities, youth, entrepreneurs and schools to uncapped internet is necessary for our country and continent to participate in the 4th Industrial Revolution,”
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Paul Colmer
Paul Colmer
Wapa Executive Committee
Independent communication consultant, author and presenter with a passion for all things ICT and telecommunications known for not taking life too seriously.
Founder & CTO of Paul Colmer & Associates
Executive committee member of WAPA
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Walter Brown
Walter Brown
Independent Communications Consultant
Consultant, author and researcher passionate about addressing the equality in South Africa.
SAKAN : South African knowledge Access Network.
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Luzango Mfupe
Luzango Mfupe
Principle researcher CSIR
Research scientist, innovator and entrepreneur.
NM-AIST; Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology ...
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Jens Langenhorst
Jens Langenhorst
Specialized RF
RF specialist consultant and contractor for Satellite and Wireless networks.
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Lesley Colmer
Lesley Colmer
Company Secretary Wapa
Experienced group financial director in the management consulting industry.
CEO Greencom
Partner IBM
Partner Ernst & Young
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Nathan Stooke
Nathan Stooke
CEO Wisper Internet USA
In the last 15 years, Nathan Stooke went from programming PCs to building Wisper into a successful multi-million-dollar Internet service provider. With headquarters in local Mascoutah, IL, Wisper now services Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. In 2018, the FCC announced that Wisper ISP won $220.3 million of federal funding in the FCC's rural broadband auction (The Connect America Fund Phase II). This money will be distributed to Wisper over a period of ten years. Wisper was one of 103 providers to win financial support from across the country.
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DR Martha Suarez
DR Martha Suarez
President Dynamic Spectrum Alliance
Dr Martha Suarez is President of the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance and has over 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. In her current role at the DSA she advocates for laws and regulations that will lead to more efficient and effective spectrum utilization, which is essential to addressing key worldwide social and economic challenges. She spent over three years as General Director of the National Spectrum Agency in Colombia, having originally joined the ANE in 2013. Before that, she was awarded with a Marie Curie Fellowship and worked at the Instytut Technologii Elektronowej ITE in Poland for the Partnership for Cognitive Radio Par4CR European Project. Suarez is an electronics engineer, with a master degree in high frequency communication systems and is Doctor in electronics from the University Paris-Est.
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Claus Hetting
Claus Hetting
CEO & Chairman of WiFi Now
Claus Hetting has worked in the mobile & wireless industries since in 1996. He works as an analyst, journalist, consultant, technologist, marketer and conference organizer. He is focusing on all the great things Wi-Fi technology can do for business and consumers: Combining Wi-Fi with mobile to offer great new services (Wi-Fi ‘offload’), homespot technology, in-home Wi-Fi, new business models & monetizing of free Wi-Fi, public venue Wi-Fi, Carrier Wi-Fi for the cable service provider industry and more.
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Steve Song
Steve Song
Fellow in Residence Mozilla, Founder of Village Telco
Expert in telecommunications policy in developing countries. Identifying regulatory and policy barriers around connecting the unconnected.
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Come and meet the sponsors at the 3 day exhibition. See the latest developments and discuss your requirements/interests/needs one on one
Platinum Sponsor
We grow ISPs businesses, from Melkbosstrand to Tzaneen and everything in between.
We don’t just sell NLD and IP transit – we solve customer challenges with guarantees never seen before.
Our ISP customers want to deliver the best quality experience to their customers and depend on us to make that happen with:
- a first-class NLD and IP Transit network to connect your customers, even in rural areas
- 100% guaranteed availability
- presence in all the major national data centres
- considerable price benefits
- significantly improved experiences
- no fixed term, inflexible contracts
- ability to scale up or down at any time
- direct access to our core engineers
With 24 years of experience building service provider networks, you can rely on Fixed Mobile to deliver uninterrupted carrier network services.
Get everything you need. We are ready to help you. And we have lots to share with you at WAPALOZA 2022.
Gold Sponsor
Building on more than seven decades of experience in engineering and technology innovation.
Telrad Networks is an award-winning, recognized global leader in wireless communications solutions.
Customers in over 100 countries and across dozens of industries have partnered with Telrad to carry out
highly optimized infrastructure deployments in the sub-11GHz spectrum based on 4G LTE, 5G and
proprietary Wi-Fi technologies. Telrad offers curated fixed wireless solutions for last mile, utilities,
critical infrastructure, education, healthcare, video surveillance, smart agriculture and industrial
communications. Telrad's purpose-built product portfolio has been developed as a tightly integrated
ecosystem of advanced solutions to serve a variety of environments and use cases—including applications
such as private LTE+, hybrid networks, backhaul and Wi-Fi 6 —while also meeting uncompromising cost and
performance targets.
Gold Sponsor
MiRO has the experience and proven track record of supplying powerful...
flexible and scalable solutions for your communication requirements. Be it wired or wireless, we can
help with the perfect solution for you.
Silver Sponsor
We are a passionate innovative telecoms company with technology solutions...
that are entirely driven by your needs. We exist to solve for our Customers. We’re ready to answer any
of your questions.
Silver Sponsor
Combining high performance cloud-based services with an award-winning fibre network.
Liquid Telecom is migrating businesses of all sizes to Africa’s Cloud. Liquid Telecom is a provider of
wholesale, carrier, and enterprise services.
Silver Sponsor
Adcomtec was formed in June 2012 and is a value-added solutions provider...
in the telecommunications infrastructure space. Our core expertise is in the design, deployment, and
support of optical transmission networks that support the core, metro, and access space.
Silver Sponsor
Switchcom Distribution is a dynamic and innovative ICT company founded in 2015...
with the aim to bring South Africa the highest quality brands available in the Wireless, Networking,
VoIP, Surveillance and Fibre sectors. Our comprehensive product range supports our vision of providing
our clients with an end-to-end solution.
Silver Sponsor
Tarana Wireless, Inc. is the industry’s performance leader and new category creator...
in ngFWA (next-generation fixed wireless access), powered by a number of well-proven breakthroughs in
perfect, multidimensional optimization of radio signals. Our G1 access platform overcomes previously
insurmountable network economics challenges for service providers in every market. The Tarana team’s
investment of 10+ years of hardcore technology development, and extensive tier-1 operator validation,
along with $300M in venture capital, has paid off with a truly game-changing breakthrough in broadband
performance and network economics.
Silver Sponsor
We are a payment aggregator, purpose built for pay as you go ISP's operating in lower LSM market.
Our system covers low transaction fees and a reseller model built in to increase sales and profit. We
also offer a light weight captive screen and radius solution to take your access point to the next
level. VulaConnect's tight integration with VulaCoin payment system allows you to get the best user
experience for your customer.
Silver Sponsor
Splynx is an ISP billing and network management system. The software is tailored for small and medium-sized providers...
Splynx is an ISP billing and network management system. The software is tailored for small and
medium-sized providers with at least 100 active subscribers. Splynx helps modern ISPs to build a
steadily growing business without the need for continuous manual billing and admin work, with stable,
automatic network and top-performing customer support.
Silver Sponsor
We are Afren Technologies. Providers of high-performance IP backhaul solutions.
Specializing in high-demand, high-availability licensed, and license-exempt, Microwave and
Millimeter-wave solutions for both the private and government sectors.
Silver Sponsor
The visibility we are adding into network and intelligent traffic control offers unmatched...
end-to-end coverage to manage any application, data load, or environment, no matter how inaccessible.
Silver Sponsor
Ultra DC is a specialised data centre operator based in Gauteng, South Africa and is focused on...
providing bespoke and custom intelligent colocation services for clients who appreciate innovative and
best of breed modern approaches to this critical function. We are positioned as an alternative to
mainstream Joburg-based DC facilities – with a strong focus on: Security, DR and cost optimisation.
Ultra DC have standardised on smart rack pod technology which means class leading security and
notification interaction with customers.
Silver Sponsor
RADWIN is a leading provider of wireless Point-to-Point, Point-to-Multipoint ...
and FiberinMotion solutions for broadband-in-motion.
Bronze Sponsor
AFR-IX telecom is a licensed telecommunication operator that delivers Data,...
MPLS, SDN and advanced Managed solutions in Africa to Corporates, International Carriers and
Telecommunication Operators in Africa.
Bronze Sponsor
Our award-winning technology enables fast, sustainable wireless networks.
We solve the no. 1 problem of unlicensed WISP networks: Interference, through innovative noise rejecting
antenna technology with near-zero loss interface, enabling unlimited scalability.
Bronze Sponsor
Wanatel is a leading provider of VoIP and cloud PBX wholesale services across South Africa.
The company offers cost-effective, white-labelled solutions to resellers, providing an innovative
platform for billing, support and services to meet customer demand. Specializing in quality VoIP and
unified Communications solutions. With offices in South Africa and France we provide global services to
an international client base.
Bronze Sponsor
The rush for fibre will soon be over. It is not financially feasible to deploy fibre everywhere.
Those living and working outside of fibre coverage areas also need access to fast, reliable and
affordable connectivity. Wireless is the only way to do this fast and affordably and the RUSH Network
can do this reliably at scale.The RUSH Network fixed wireless network is used by multiple South African
Internet Service Providers (ISP's) to create and sell their own white-labelled fixed wireless services.
This enabled ISP's to reach customers previously neglected by network infrastructure providers.
Bronze Sponsor
Mimosa by Airspan is reimagining fixed outdoor wireless broadband. Mimosa enables fibre-fast, fixed wireless...
broadband connectivity for dense urban and hard-to-reach rural areas for a fraction of the cost of
traditional optic solutions. We aim to make internet access faster, stronger, and more accessible than
it is today. We believe the internet should be incredibly scalable, with gigabit speeds available to
anyone, anywhere in the world.
Bronze Sponsor
We offer several wholesale services, from remote peering to national long-distance, IP Transit and enterprise virtual servers.
Our primary focus is to offer superior bandwidth accompanied by our well-respected service. Our network
has been designed to offer the best-performing routes to all global geographical locations for the South
African market. We also offer several support services to assist in managing your core infrastructure
and network with extensive skills in Cisco, Mikrotik, VMWare, Radius and billing integration. To
complement your environments, we offer an enterprise VMWare platform that can be delivered via VLAN so
you can have your public address space on our virtual environment managed via a Virtual Data Centre
portal, allowing you to provision servers as required and manage resources, billed on consumption.
Bronze Sponsor
By choosing Azotel you will be following in the footsteps of numerous other Azotel Enabled Operators (AEO).
Proof of the model is further demonstrated by the willingness of banks, financial institutions and
governments to invest in Azotel Enabled Operators.
Bronze Sponsor
Unlike typical consulting groups that work with VARs and hardware distributors, IP ArchiTechs makes a concious choice not to sell anything other than our expertise.
This allows our solutions to be based on best design practices, protocol selection, and deployment
strategy. Our focus is to be an advocate for our clients' networks, not the vendor's sales.
Interested in being a Sponsor? Click here to download the Conference Manual to find out more about unique sponsorship
opportunities for your brand and access all the conference information for sponsors.
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