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Africa's frustrated communications firms

2017-12-01 13:29:57| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Although the mobile phone industry in Africa is thriving, telecoms providers face a number of challenges.

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Hiawatha Broadband Communications chooses Espial cloud platform

2017-11-30 15:00:53| Digital TV News

Espial has announced that Hiawatha Broadband Communications (HBC) is powering its video services with Espials Elevate cloud-based SaaS solution. HBC is an operator in Minnesota and Wisconsin providing TV, broadband, and voice services to its customers.

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IT Network and Communications Engineer

2017-11-30 12:16:06| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

As IT Network and Communications Engineer, you will have the opportunity to provide support to all Communications Facilities Services covering all operational LAN, WAN and network security facilities. The scope of tasks covers the maintenance and operational phases of the network infrastructure lifecycle. This position is based in Darmstadt, Germany. Tasks and Activities The scope of work will include Administration of the LAN, including configuration and troubleshooting of all LAN and WAN elements, diagnostic testing and performance monitoring between LAN and WAN component IP address management documenting and coordinating the assignment of static IP addresses, VLANs and IP domains in QIP Support to time distribution systems NTP, and Domain Name Servers DNS configure, troubleshoot and maintain existing NTP and DNS infrastructure Administration of the WAN links to third party providers and ESA partners Administration of the LAN and WAN security perimeter access control in line with ESA security policies Install, configure, troubleshoot and maintain existing network and network monitoring software such as CiscoWorks, Cisco CSM etc. Recommend configuration changes and network upgrades Participation in design reviews Implementation of planned and scheduled changes, including, but not limited to Creation, move, removal of communications user systems Commissioning, change and decommissioning of permanent and ondemand trunks and backbones internal to communications facilities, both LANs andWAN Maintenance, upgrades and extensions of communications facilities in general Keeping up to date the pertinent records, databases and monitoring and reporting tools, including the capability to trace the history of changes The Configuration Items Cis in the Configuration Management Database CMDB shall be maintained with the following data for each ESA establishment, tracking station, ESA partner site or other OPSNET point of presence Routing and capacity of access to site over telecom provider infrastructures, both terrestrial and satellite, including leased pointtopoint services, ondemand capacity, and access to Internet Capacity of links and allocation to different uses, QoS or traffic classes IP Subnets constituting the different OPSNET communities in the QIP database SLA parameters for each link The firewall logs shall be inspected daily for suspicious traffic and possible security breaches. Any findings shall be reported to the CCC and the responsible MOIIT Mission operations Infrastructure Information Technology Network and Security Manager MOIITNSM. Support to installation changes shall be provided for the connection between ESA Customer Premises Equipment CPEs and Public Telecom Operator PTO points of entry or points of presence. Skills and Experience The following skills and experience are mandatory You have a University degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related IT field You have handson network engineering experience in routeswitch, LANs, WANs, wired and wireless networking, routing protocols, QOS You have handson experience with Installation, configuration, troubleshooting and maintaining existing network and network monitoring software You have experience in multivendor networking environments Cisco, HPE, Extreme Networks, etc. You have experience in change of a communication user system including the planning and execution You have experience in remote access and remote management IT Security and Security protocols acumen The following skills would be highly desirable You have experience in VoIP Unified Communications, call management systems e.g., Cisco, Avaya, Shoretel You have experience in IT within the Space industry Cisco CCNA or CCNP is a plus How to Apply Looking to take your career to the next level? Interested applicants should submit their CV and Cover Letter to RHEAs Recruitment team at careersrheagroup.com no later than 25012018. Preference will be given to candidates eligible for an EU or national personal security clearance at the level of SECRET or above. About RHEA Group RHEA Group is a leading engineering consultancy firm with demonstrated expertise in space, system and secure software solutions. We attract skilled engineers, scientists and management professionals and offer a range of exciting career paths working alongside clients such as the European Space Agency, the European GNSS Agency, EUMETSAT and NATO.

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Frontier Communications signs up to Energy-Efficiency Voluntary Agreements

2017-11-27 23:30:17| Digital TV News

Frontier Communications has joined as a signatory of two voluntary agreements to continue the ongoing improvement of the energy efficiency of its set-top boxes, as well as modems and routers used for broadband Internet services.

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