eNetworks celebrates Women's month and more ...

August is Women's month and at eNetworks we are proud of the dynamic women we have supporting us. From our call centre to our Directors, we acknowledge the team of women that make things happen. Our focus this month is our senior team management team. They are:

• Dumisa Melane - Customer Services Manager, eNetworks Director
• Leslie Maliepaard - General Manager
• Danielle Guignet - Sales/Procurement Manager
• Karen Swart - Senior Accountant

We're celebrating more than just Women's month in August. Added to this, we've expanded our office to accommodate for future growth. Having started the business more than ten years ago, we have grown in both the services we offer and the office space we occupy. But most importantly, our promise of delivering a service beyond the call of duty remains our focus.

Dumisa Melane happens to be responsible for this. She provides the interface between customers, suppliers and most importantly, the technical team. Apart from having one of the most important roles, she has been with us since 2001 and this year, she celebrates her decade with us. Well done Dumisa!

She is passionate about many things. One of them is the ability to continuously learn from mentors and peers around her. The difference here is that as much as she loves learning, she gives back even more. In her spare time she likes reading, listening to music and likes playing handy "man" around the home and enjoys working on various DIY projects.

She cites one of her career highlights as the day she was offered the opportunity to become a Director in the company.

Official job title: Customer Service Manager

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Leslie Maliepaard is a woman of many talents. She joined eNetworks out of a need to free up time for one of the Director's to focus on Business and Product Development.

The role called for a General Manager and she fit the criteria perfectly. Not much persuasion was needed for her to join the company. She has a strong Financial Management and HR focus as well as heavily driving Sales and Marketing.

Leslie cites her career highlight as being awarded a US grant to attend a Women Entrepreneurship programme in the USA. It was a 180 degree career changing experience where she learned about the power of women in business and how important, (no critical) their roles in business are.

She loves reading, cooking, yoga, photography, scuba diving and her passions are linked to food, travel, wine and cool gadgets of all sorts.

Official job title: General Manager

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Danielle Guignet, a newbie to the team, has 16 years of experience under her belt. She became involved with eNetworks after being part of the Tarsus Technologies team.

She cites her career highlight as "knowing that every company I have worked for would employ me again".

Painting, spending time with her children (her passion in life) as well as her dogs, is how she likes spending her down time.

Official job title: Sales/Procurement Manager

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Karen Swart another newbie to the team, is responsible for a critical aspect of business, the Accounts Department. She ensures that the accounts are processed smoothly. She enjoys the atmosphere in the office and the dynamic energy of the team.

"Never a dull moment in the office" she says.

Official job title: Senior Accountant

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Monopolistic Principles and Poor Service Stifle Players

Jonathan Maliepaard, MD of eNetworks, says the biggest hurdle to progress is the cost of bandwidth from the likes of Telkom and Neotel, which is disproportionately high.
"Local bandwidth now costs more than international bandwidth," he comments.
He says when the 5.6 gigabit West Africa Cable System (WACS) undersea cable lands in SA in 2010 the biggest problem will be affordable local bandwidth to access it. "The cost of deploying long-haul fibre is expensive, so the same old big companies are installing it and keeping prices high."

eNetworks polishes ArcelorMittal South Africa’s Saldanha Works enterprise network

28 April 2010 – eNetworks, the enterprise network services provider, has vastly improved the performance of local area network (LAN) for Saldanha Works, one of the plants of leading steel company, ArcelorMittal South Africa.

eNetworks diagnosed and optimised the company’s existing LAN topology in order to increase performance and uptime. The LAN is used for both the network monitoring system of the steel plant as well as general administration functions. Poor LAN performance and downtime can mean a direct cost to the company from a production point of view and by preventing staff working at maximum capacity, along with the associated frustration of a slow system.

What does uncapped broadband mean for the consumer?

By Jonathan Maliepaard, MD eNetworks

What does uncapped ADSL mean to the consumer right now, well it depends. The recent exuberance expressed by so many might be short lived when they realise that they might not be getting the same performance that they had before. Why you might ask? It is simple mathematics. Infrastructure and bandwidth cost lots of money and the only way to make an uncapped service sustainable is to make lots of clients share the same bandwidth. ISPs have been doing this for years, but it was easier to do when you were being paid for what you used. Now the playing field has changed and massive oversubscription ratios and caching will be the only way to survive.

Downside of Uncapped

According to Jonathan Maliepaard, the managing director of eNetworks, the South African enterprise networks services provider and ISP, the recent exuberance expressed about the uncapped rate might be short lived when they realise that they might not be getting the same performance that they had before.
"It is simple mathematics-infrastructure and bandwidth cost a lot and the only way to make an uncapped service sustainable is to make lots of clients share the same bandwidth.