Dr Gwandu took the opportunity to make his plea at the recent GSM Africa conference in
Dr Gwandu was specific in his statements. He said bandwidth at lower prices will be a driving force in his country's economy. In addition, future trends in technology are pointing to Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) as a key technology, in that it allows two wires to support several telephone lines at rapid rates.
On a more specific level a single strand of fibre with four cores can potentially carry dense channels, thereby increasing the number of those channels four-fold. In addition, the challenge for operators currently building optic fibre networks is to consider technology up to the challenge of 10Gb/s in the future, and even then allowing routing of all types of traffic, switching, topologies, and interoperability between vendors. Starting with technology which is already on the way out in other parts of the world is no way to run an operation.
Cause for optimismDespite his advice, Dr Gwandu is essentially optimistic. He said that
