http://www.umoya.net Umoya Network Solutions is a telecommunications network solutions provider. Their core competencies are designing and implementing TCP/IP network solutions wirelessly. Their solutions include satellite, microwave, fibre optics and leased lines. Their stre en-us Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:48:07 +0200 staffroom (http://www.mystaffroom.net) 5 http://www.umoya.net/site/blog/36 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:48:07 +0200 http://www.umoya.net/blog/36 http://www.umoya.net/site/blog/35 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:42:50 +0200 http://www.umoya.net/blog/35 http://www.umoya.net/site/blog/30 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:01:01 +0200 http://www.umoya.net/blog/30 http://www.umoya.net/site/blog/31 It is March once more. Apart from it being more like February from the point of view of the weather, it is once more time for the Argus Cycle Tour. Cyclists from all over the world (including some fella from Texas called Lance Armstrong) will be descending on Cape Town to chase each other around the Peninsula, just for the hell of it. Takes all types to make a world. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.umoya.net/blog/31 http://www.umoya.net/site/blog/29 This past month has been very intense, but thanks to the dedication of the Umoya Team and our partners (working 7 days a week and up to 16hrs a day) we have managed to get 85% of the Gauteng schools back online and 100% of our critical sites in the Western Cape. We still have quite a few sites to migrate and these will be done during the course of the next two weeks. The G11 satellite has superior coverage compared with IS-4 and we are also experiencing higher quality signal strength, meaning that the satellite network should prove to be more stable and give better performance. In the process of doing this migration and with our newly established partnership with Vodacom Business, Umoya has been able to improve the overall design of our customers networks by adding more redundancy and improved performance. This has enabled us to lay a strong foundation for future growth by being able to offer superior carrier class services. We would like to thank our customers for having patience with us whilst we have migrated their networks from the failed IS-4 satellite. This migration would have had to have happened sometime this year, so it least it is almost behind us. The launch of the New Dawn satellite is scheduled for December and should come into service during the first quarter of 2011. New Dawn will be in the same orbital slot as G11, so migrating from G11 to New Dawn will not require a re-point of the satellite dishes. New Dawn is being funded jointly between a South African consortium and Intelsat and will be operated by Intelsat on their behalf. It is good that South Africans can now say that they essentialy own a majority stake in a communications satellite. Umoya is proudly South African and is glad to be supporting this venture. Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:59:21 +0200 http://www.umoya.net/blog/29 http://www.umoya.net/site/blog/28 By this morning, Monday 22 February 2010, 70% of the Gauteng schools have been migrated to G11. The sites we are now dealing with are those where civil engineering work is needed to reposition the dishes, and where technical or logistical challenges have thwarted us so far. We still aim to have as close to 100% of the schools up by the end of February. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.umoya.net/blog/28 http://www.umoya.net/site/blog/27 We have an interim progress report on service restoration:We are in the final stages of concluding an agreement with a national network operator which will not only provide us with satellite bandwidth but will put us in a position to resell a suite of services which will supplement and enhance our VSAT offering. Adversity often brings unexpected benefits (‘And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose’ - Romans 8:27-28).Engineers have literally been working through the nights to set up a new network. The satellite hub is now up and connected to Intelsat satellite G11. We have started repointing the antennae at the 250 sites for the schools in Gauteng.We are working with solutions architects from the national network operator to develop a cost effective yet extremely robust WAN offering. We will be in a position to start repointing VSAT dishes and installing the supplementary Customer Premises Equipment by Monday 15 February. The teams will be starting with the 16 critical Disaster Recovery sites, starting on Thursday 11th February at Tygerberg moving on to the EMCs and WBs and more remote sites before the 16th. The balance of the sites will be done before the end of Feb. The schools will also be completed before the of Feb.We would like to extend our thanks to our customers, many of whom, although anxious to see service restored as soon as possible, have been understanding and supportive during this extraordinary time. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:05:30 +0200 http://www.umoya.net/blog/27 http://www.umoya.net/site/blog/26 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:02:02 +0200 http://www.umoya.net/blog/26 http://www.umoya.net/site/blog/25 It is time we took up the mic again and interrogated some of the team here. Today, we decided to pick on: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:53:09 +0200 http://www.umoya.net/blog/25 http://www.umoya.net/site/blog/24 Stuart Phillips. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.umoya.net/blog/24