1. MAURITIUS
Office No 3
1st Floor
Dodo Square
Coastal Road
Grand Baie
30514
Tel: +230 263 9767
Mobile: +230 5 810 9759
(John Comley)
SOUTH AFRICA
The Offices of Hyde Park
Block A,
Ground Floor
Strouthos Place
(Off Second Road)
Hyde Park
2196
Tel: +27 (0) 87 803 9777
Fax: +27 (0) 11 325 4787
RWANDA
Regus Offices
Kigali City Tower
Plot No. 6418
14th Floor
Avenue du Commerce
Kigali
Rwanda
Tel: +250 788 180127
Fax: +250 788 180101
Mobile: +25 078 848 5623
(Innocent Mutimura)
UGANDA
Regus Offices
Plot 21
Yusuf Lule Road
Ground /7th Floor
Course View Towers
Kampala
Uganda
Tel: +256 (0) 312 314 405
Mobile: +256 79 079 0190
(Simon Kaggwa)
CAMEROON
202 Residence Adele
2010 rue njo njo
Bonapriso
Douala B.P. 2771
Tel: +237 68 000 8762
(Sylvain Lokangaka)
KENYA
Regus Offices
Delta Corner Tower
Chiromo Road
Westlands
6th and 7th Floor
Nairobi
Kenya
Tel: + 254 73 011 2000
Mobile: +256 79 079 0190
(Simon Kaggwa)
Mobile: +25 078 848 5623
(Innocent Mutimura)
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Africa’s Internet for its
Emerging Generations
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info@core2africa.net | www.core2africa.net

2. Core2Africa Networks (Core2Africa) is a specialised company that focuses
on the architecture, design and deployment of IP/MPLS and Ethernet
infrastructures for service providers along with the following sectors:
- Internet service providers
- Carriers
- Mobile operators
- Application service providers
- Broadband access networks
We believe that our expertise in the development of
efficient, scalable infrastructure architectures and
supporting systems will enable operators to cost optimise
their environments whilst providing improved network
availability, performance and customer experience.
Core2Africa strives to offer complete infrastructure
solutions and/or enhancements that will enable the
service provider to provision and maintain profitable
services to their customers. Our view of a complete
infrastructure extends considerably beyond the
equipment and the network and includes the following
topics:
> Information on traffic patterns and
service performance
> Network optimisation
> Risk analysis and mitigation
> Comprehensive design from physical facilities
to protocols and services
> Information on traffic patterns and
service performance
> Ongoing maintenance and sustainability
of the service to the customer
> Service creation and definition
> Activation and provisioning of services to customers
In order to achieve these goals, the company is a firm
believer in multi-vendor environments and will support
vendors that we feel will provide the ‘best of breed’
technological solutions for specific functional areas.
Hence, we have entered into strategic alliances with key
vendors whom we believe will assist us in making our
customers more competitive.
The highly experienced team has vast background
in what is arguably the largest and most advanced IP/
MPLS service provider infrastructure on the sub-Saharan
African continent. This experience covers all aspects from
the physical fibre planted in the ground, through complex
network protocols to the development of the services
delivered to customers.
CORE2AFRICA NETWORK EVOLUTION APPROACH
As data services grow exponentially in an increasingly
competitive environment, which is creating increased
price pressure which is leading to significant and
repeated price compression. At the same time, voice
revenues which are still dominant are on the decline
and data services are consuming the vast majority of
bandwidth capacity where the underlying network
infrastructure is undergoing transformation to packet-
based technologies of IP/MPLS and Ethernet. This is
creating a situation where operators need to carefully
manage and reduce the total cost of operating the
network whilst at the same time meet customer
expectations for increased performance, quality and
reliability.
Making the situation more challenging to manage
is the typical way in which packet-based technologies
have evolved within most operators. These challenges
include the setup of islands of disparate infrastructure
that have been built for different requirements. These
islands have tended to be quite small and have been
deployed in a fashion that suits the short term objectives,
minimized cost to the supplier rather than the long term,
total cost of ownership to the operator. The pressures
of these rapidly evolving customer services are creating
a challenging situation where disparate environments
are required to interwork with each other and the global
Internet. This interaction usually starts in an informal, ad
hoc fashion and rapidly becomes difficult and costly to
manage, operate, scale and troubleshoot.
Core2Africa’s philosophy to taking on the challenge
of reducing the total cost of ownership whilst improving
network performance and reliability is to evolve the
environment into a structured and modular, converged
services environment with well-defined roles and
responsibilities of the various network components.
In order to achieve this, the following are the major
activities that take place, namely:
> Convergence: This is the process of consolidating
multiple disparate, packet-based environments into a
single seamless network infrastructure.
> Consolidation: This is the process of eliminating
duplicate components in the network in order to improve
the total cost of ownership and reliability and reduce the
complexity of management.
> Simplification: This is the process of streamlining the
underlying network complexity and eliminating complex,
inefficient interfaces and configurations. Key to this
is to develop standardized and structured methods of
deploying services.
> Automation: This entails the use of systems to
perform common, repetitive and tedious tasks that are
often prone to human error.
Key to the evolution of converged services
networks is the separation required between the ever-
increasing range of diverse services and the underlying
network infrastructure. In order to build a sustainable
environment it is vital to take a structured and modular
approach considering the end-to-end requirements and
network infrastructure. The diagram below displays the
approach that has been adopted by Core2Africa.
CONSULTING AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
> Assessment/audit of current technical environment
> Business requirements analysis
> Infrastructure design and architecture
> Network and operational optimisation
> Solution, project scoping and definition
> Development of network evolution
> Project management and implementation
EQUIPMENT SUPPLY
Core2Africa actively promotes and supplies a
comprehensive range of proven ‘best of breed’ network
equipment and OSS systems in order to provide
the customer with an optimal, end-to-end network
environment to support the business needs. This
comprehensive range includes the following:
> Routers
> Ethernet switches
> Firewalls
> VoIP infrastructure
> Broadband subscriber management and
deep packet inspection
> Encryption devices
> Network optimisation tools
> Performance management tools
> Network and service assurance tools
> Security, vulnerability detection systems
> Authentication systems
> Optical equipment
NETWORK MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT
Core2Africa will provide back-to-back support and
maintenance for the network equipment and OSS
systems that it deploys. This would include the following
activities:
> Troubleshooting and problem resolution
> Managing the escalation process to the vendor
technical assistance centres (TAC)
> Software updates
> Hardware replacement
> Network upgrades
> Change control management
> Incident management
> Ongoing network optimisation
Continuously Improving Total Cost of Ownership
Continuously Improving Network Performance and Reliability
Convergence Consolidation Simplification Automation

3. Core2Africa Networks (Core2Africa) is a specialised company that focuses
on the architecture, design and deployment of IP/MPLS and Ethernet
infrastructures for service providers along with the following sectors:
- Internet service providers
- Carriers
- Mobile operators
- Application service providers
- Broadband access networks
We believe that our expertise in the development of
efficient, scalable infrastructure architectures and
supporting systems will enable operators to cost optimise
their environments whilst providing improved network
availability, performance and customer experience.
Core2Africa strives to offer complete infrastructure
solutions and/or enhancements that will enable the
service provider to provision and maintain profitable
services to their customers. Our view of a complete
infrastructure extends considerably beyond the
equipment and the network and includes the following
topics:
> Information on traffic patterns and
service performance
> Network optimisation
> Risk analysis and mitigation
> Comprehensive design from physical facilities
to protocols and services
> Information on traffic patterns and
service performance
> Ongoing maintenance and sustainability
of the service to the customer
> Service creation and definition
> Activation and provisioning of services to customers
In order to achieve these goals, the company is a firm
believer in multi-vendor environments and will support
vendors that we feel will provide the ‘best of breed’
technological solutions for specific functional areas.
Hence, we have entered into strategic alliances with key
vendors whom we believe will assist us in making our
customers more competitive.
The highly experienced team has vast background
in what is arguably the largest and most advanced IP/
MPLS service provider infrastructure on the sub-Saharan
African continent. This experience covers all aspects from
the physical fibre planted in the ground, through complex
network protocols to the development of the services
delivered to customers.
CORE2AFRICA NETWORK EVOLUTION APPROACH
As data services grow exponentially in an increasingly
competitive environment, which is creating increased
price pressure which is leading to significant and
repeated price compression. At the same time, voice
revenues which are still dominant are on the decline
and data services are consuming the vast majority of
bandwidth capacity where the underlying network
infrastructure is undergoing transformation to packet-
based technologies of IP/MPLS and Ethernet. This is
creating a situation where operators need to carefully
manage and reduce the total cost of operating the
network whilst at the same time meet customer
expectations for increased performance, quality and
reliability.
Making the situation more challenging to manage
is the typical way in which packet-based technologies
have evolved within most operators. These challenges
include the setup of islands of disparate infrastructure
that have been built for different requirements. These
islands have tended to be quite small and have been
deployed in a fashion that suits the short term objectives,
minimized cost to the supplier rather than the long term,
total cost of ownership to the operator. The pressures
of these rapidly evolving customer services are creating
a challenging situation where disparate environments
are required to interwork with each other and the global
Internet. This interaction usually starts in an informal, ad
hoc fashion and rapidly becomes difficult and costly to
manage, operate, scale and troubleshoot.
Core2Africa’s philosophy to taking on the challenge
of reducing the total cost of ownership whilst improving
network performance and reliability is to evolve the
environment into a structured and modular, converged
services environment with well-defined roles and
responsibilities of the various network components.
In order to achieve this, the following are the major
activities that take place, namely:
> Convergence: This is the process of consolidating
multiple disparate, packet-based environments into a
single seamless network infrastructure.
> Consolidation: This is the process of eliminating
duplicate components in the network in order to improve
the total cost of ownership and reliability and reduce the
complexity of management.
> Simplification: This is the process of streamlining the
underlying network complexity and eliminating complex,
inefficient interfaces and configurations. Key to this
is to develop standardized and structured methods of
deploying services.
> Automation: This entails the use of systems to
perform common, repetitive and tedious tasks that are
often prone to human error.
Key to the evolution of converged services
networks is the separation required between the ever-
increasing range of diverse services and the underlying
network infrastructure. In order to build a sustainable
environment it is vital to take a structured and modular
approach considering the end-to-end requirements and
network infrastructure. The diagram below displays the
approach that has been adopted by Core2Africa.
CONSULTING AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
> Assessment/audit of current technical environment
> Business requirements analysis
> Infrastructure design and architecture
> Network and operational optimisation
> Solution, project scoping and definition
> Development of network evolution
> Project management and implementation
EQUIPMENT SUPPLY
Core2Africa actively promotes and supplies a
comprehensive range of proven ‘best of breed’ network
equipment and OSS systems in order to provide
the customer with an optimal, end-to-end network
environment to support the business needs. This
comprehensive range includes the following:
> Routers
> Ethernet switches
> Firewalls
> VoIP infrastructure
> Broadband subscriber management and
deep packet inspection
> Encryption devices
> Network optimisation tools
> Performance management tools
> Network and service assurance tools
> Security, vulnerability detection systems
> Authentication systems
> Optical equipment
NETWORK MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT
Core2Africa will provide back-to-back support and
maintenance for the network equipment and OSS
systems that it deploys. This would include the following
activities:
> Troubleshooting and problem resolution
> Managing the escalation process to the vendor
technical assistance centres (TAC)
> Software updates
> Hardware replacement
> Network upgrades
> Change control management
> Incident management
> Ongoing network optimisation
Continuously Improving Total Cost of Ownership
Continuously Improving Network Performance and Reliability
Convergence Consolidation Simplification Automation

4. MAURITIUS
Office No 3
1st Floor
Dodo Square
Coastal Road
Grand Baie
30514
Tel: +230 263 9767
Mobile: +230 5 810 9759
(John Comley)
SOUTH AFRICA
The Offices of Hyde Park
Block A,
Ground Floor
Strouthos Place
(Off Second Road)
Hyde Park
2196
Tel: +27 (0) 87 803 9777
Fax: +27 (0) 11 325 4787
RWANDA
Regus Offices
Kigali City Tower
Plot No. 6418
14th Floor
Avenue du Commerce
Kigali
Rwanda
Tel: +250 788 180127
Fax: +250 788 180101
Mobile: +25 078 848 5623
(Innocent Mutimura)
UGANDA
Regus Offices
Plot 21
Yusuf Lule Road
Ground /7th Floor
Course View Towers
Kampala
Uganda
Tel: +256 (0) 312 314 405
Mobile: +256 79 079 0190
(Simon Kaggwa)
CAMEROON
202 Residence Adele
2010 rue njo njo
Bonapriso
Douala B.P. 2771
Tel: +237 68 000 8762
(Sylvain Lokangaka)
KENYA
Regus Offices
Delta Corner Tower
Chiromo Road
Westlands
6th and 7th Floor
Nairobi
Kenya
Tel: + 254 73 011 2000
Mobile: +256 79 079 0190
(Simon Kaggwa)
Mobile: +25 078 848 5623
(Innocent Mutimura)
IMPROVE > OPTIMISE > COMPETE
Passionately building
Africa’s Internet for its
Emerging Generations
STRATEGIC PARTNERS
info@core2africa.net | www.core2africa.net