Telkom hosts operators’ conference
The annual five-day event, hosted for the first time by an African country, will be launched on Sunday, 19 March at the Intercontinental Sandton Sun.
The Service and Network Operations group (SNO) is a working group that was put in place by the International Telecommunication Union – telecommunications sector (ITU-T).
The annual international forum allows for the sharing of information among network operators on an international scale.
Says ITU-T chairperson, Morris Flory: "SNO has a direct impact on changing or implementing new ITU recommendations that apply to network management."
The ITU-SNO forum is the only conference in the telecommunications industry that focuses only on operations and strives to drive standards bodies and industry organizations by being the "voice of operations".
During the course of next week, the conference will aim to encourage wider global ITU-T participation in the identification, development and implementation of Network and Service Management activities for Operations as well as disseminate information relating to Network and Service Management Operations techniques and procedures for new technologies.
"Hosting this conference provides an ideal opportunity for South Africa – and Telkom specifically – to highlight to the world our telecommunications capabilities.
It will help dispel any reservations with First-World operators about Telkom being a Third World carrier," says Theo Hess, Telkom (TKG) Managing Executive for Network Centre Operations.
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