Expertise

Vedacom areas of expertise include:

Broadband network architecture/design
- Application and network life cycle (requirements, architecture, design, implementation)
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
- Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
- Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
- Wide Area Network (WAN) routing
- Gigabit Ethernet/10GbE
Wireless network architecture/design
- Mobile networked applications, mobile commerce (m-commerce)
- Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), previously Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
- Global System for Mobile Telecommunications (GSM)
- General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
- Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.11
- Air Interface Standard (WiMAX), IEEE 802.16
- Wireless security
- Digital Rights Management (DRM)
IT Economic Justification
- Requirement-driven IT alternatives (computing, networking, systems)
- Weighted enterprise drivers in terms of technical elegance, economic rationale, management sensitivity
- Optimized results integrating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
Electronic security architecture/design
- Enterprise and carrier Internet, Intranet, Extranet, Wireless architecture, design
- Vulnerability scans, corrective actions
- Enterprise and carrier Security Policies, Guidelines, Standards & Procedures
- Enterprise and carrier Business Continuance & Disaster Recovery Policies, Procedures, Standards, Deployments
- Access control, Proxy services
- Authentication, Authorization, Accounting/Auditing (AAA)
- Content & Liability Management, User Management
- Cryptography
- Firewall integration
- Audit enforcement
Enterprise data center architecture and infrastructure
- Requirements, design
- High availability and risk assessment
- Application and network risk assessment
- Information security risk assessment
- Site selection
- Optimized power density
- Technology and support infrastructure definition
- Single point of failure (SPOF) analysis, identification
- Network operations center (NOC)
- Business continuity and disaster recovery analysis
- Physical security
- Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)
- Budgeting
Storage Area Network (SAN), Network-Attached Storage (NAS)
Enterprise modeling
- Analytic Queueing
- Simulation
Network and systems management
Relational databases
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP/IP)/Systems Network Architecture (SNA) integration
Patent authoring
- Technology and business process patents
- Patent Opinion Letter (Right-to-Use) collaboration
Product Licenses
Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Policy-enabled network architecture/design
- Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning
- Policy validation, distribution, enforcement
- “5 Nines” to “3 Nines” carrier-grade design, deployment
Quantum computing—quantum gates, quantum switching, quantum network architecture
White Paper authoring