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A NEW APPROACH TO SOLUTIONDEVELOPMENT...Working with a dynamic customer Today the various parts can bebase means constantly churning out done in tandem thanks to thenew products or fine tuning existing integrated modules in SD Hubproducts to suit their needs. Speedis imperative meet these changing This innovation is well situatedneeds in a continuously advancing in a forward looking virtualizedtechnological era. New approach environment. Virtualizedand technologies offer themselves infrastructure is the way to goas necessary enablers. for agility; it takes care of all the IT/Networks needs of a modernAgainst this background, the enterprise.Solutions Development team hasintroduced an agile way for Virtualization provides anenterprise solution delivery and abstraction over compute,have come up with the innovative storage, or networking resources‘promotion hub’ aka SD Hub and provides a unified platform for managing the infrastructure.The SD hub has 7 modules . Yee Twi Kor and Ekiki Miintegrated into the productdevelopment process helping toactualize an agile way ofdevelopment, shortening time tomarket. Eg. In the past, we wouldhave had to depend on someexternal party to complete certainaspects of product developmentbefore the next process could bestarted.

TRAVEL THE PACKET WAYBefore you can ever experience the In addition, the associatedjoy of FaceTime, a giggle on Twitter monthly recurring costs areor share that iconic snapchat pic, our currently almost 60% cheapernetwork needs to connect to servers than equivalent capacity using thehosting these services. The most SDH approach.efficient way is to connect on subseatransmission fibre cables for data With this enhanced capabilitypackets (content) to travel on them Vodafone is equipped to take onvia IP connectivity. accelerated data growth underpinned by increasedThe subsea portion of the transport customer data appetite, FTTH andservice has traditionally been based eventually LTE, in a scalable andon a technology originally developed cost-effective fashion, placing usfor voice applications i.e. SDH in a good position to WIN Data.technology. Adapting it for data If there is any time data accessservices meant inefficient use of will be faster, the time is now.!!!capacity due to overheads.In 2016, Vodafone Gh began lookingat introducing IP circuits which iswell suited for data transmission toreplace the 5 STM-16 SDH links (ofapprox. 42Gb capacity) with two10Gb links.This approach is much cheaper thanthe same 10Gbps on SDH technologydue to specialised line card with justtwo port used for its deployment;the cost of which can provide astandard 10G Ethernet line card with20 ports (5x more capacity).

R4 FOR CASHAs a cashless society catches up with In improving customer/ partnerus and more and more transactions experience, nine services have beenhappen with the mobile phone, it is defined;imperative for us to offer our · Over the Countercustomers of a secured transaction · Customer Name Search;platform. · Beneficiary Look up;Until recently Vodafone Cash was · Groups Savings and Loans;operated on the G2 platform. This · Generic IMT Send.platform did not meet new business · Dynamic Pricing;objectives; thus following audit · Market Data Feed.requirements migration was done to · Automatic Sweepthe Release 4 platform. · Display ChargesThe Release 4 platform presents a We take our commitment tomore robust platform with no customers very seriously andavenue for fraudulent activities. It recognise that they need safety andcomes ready with new features and security when using our platform.services that provides direct We have therefore taken steps tobenefits to Vodafone customers and make the service fool proofsystem users .

VODAFONE POISED TO LEAD THE DATAEXPLOSION: DELIVERS FTTH TO SEVERALCOMMUNITIESVodafone, has over that last two This technology has opened doorsdecades provided copper lines as a to a new world with limitlessmedium to deliver voice and data opportunities and possibilities byservices in its fixed segment portfolio. tremendously enhancing productivity;In the last five years however, we have impacting positively healthcareevolved to using fibre as a fixed delivery, improving access to qualitymedium for improving broadband education in the era of MOOCstechnology in the country with the (massive open online courses) anddeployment of Fibre-To-The-Home boosting the economy. Fast internet(FTTH), a faster data transfer network. to deliver quad play services; data,FTTH radically increases the connection voice, video, video (on-demand) andspeeds available to users compared readiness for future Internet Ofwith other fixed or wireline Things (IoT) demands and smarttechnologies used in most places. It homes.provides higher bandwidth to There is no better time to sign upbusinesses and consumers, to support for Fibre to the Home. The future ismore robust video, internet and voice really exciting with a Vodafone fibreservices. connected home.We have made this fibre infrastructureavailable in over 147 communities in(urban and sub-urban areas) offeringover 13,000 homes access to ultrahighspeed internet.Vodafone is committed to expandingits FTTH footprint to cover the entirecountry

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