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Wesley van Rayne, Product and Solutions Lead at Redvine Networks same time, tolerance for latency, security weaknesses and inconsistent application experiences is declining.
“ The requirement has shifted accordingly. African enterprises are no longer buying connectivity between locations; they are buying assured, secure access between users, applications, data and AI agents wherever those happen to reside. That is a different architectural conversation, and it is already underway,” said Bakry.
New traffic patterns reshape the network
The nature of enterprise traffic is changing too. Wesley van Rayne, Product and Solutions Lead at Redvine Networks, points out that African businesses are no longer simply consuming data. They are increasingly producing and exporting it at scale.
AI models, cloud workloads and collaboration platforms are creating growing demand for upstream capacity. Instead of relatively predictable traffic patterns, networks must now accommodate large, burst-style uploads ranging from datasets to multimedia files.
Fibre provides the capacity required for backbone networks, data centres and AI infrastructure. 5G offers mobility and flexibility, particularly for industrial environments and fixed wireless access. Satellite, meanwhile, can extend connectivity and resilience to areas where terrestrial infrastructure is difficult or uneconomical to deploy.
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