{"id":525425,"date":"2024-02-20T10:30:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T08:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=525425"},"modified":"2024-02-20T07:28:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T05:28:30","slug":"whats-next-cipherwave-ceo-shamith-maharaj-on-their-new-expansion-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/525425-whats-next-cipherwave-ceo-shamith-maharaj-on-their-new-expansion-plans.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Next \u2014 CipherWave CEO Shamith Maharaj on their new expansion plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this What\u2019s Next with Aki Anastasiou interview, CipherWave CEO Shamith Maharaj discusses CipherWave\u2019s expansion plans for Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Maharaj has extensive knowledge in project management, network design, network activations, network operations, network management, IT management, and service assurance.<\/p>\n<p>He previously worked at CMC Networks for over 14 years, serving as the Head of NOC (Network Operations Centre) and Service Assurance, and then as the Vice President of Global Network Operations.<\/p>\n<p>Maharaj joined BCX in 2019 as the Executive for Data Networks before moving to CipherWave in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He started as the Chief Business Development Officer at CipherWave before recently taking on his current role as CEO.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"my-4\"><strong>What\u2019s Next interview<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Maharaj began the interview by discussing CipherWave\u2019s new strategy and direction for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Part of this new strategy is being an \u201cenabler of enablers\u201d, and Maharaj explains what this means for the South African market.<\/p>\n<p>Maharaj also highlights CipherWave\u2019s focus on client support both at the physical and application layers.<\/p>\n<p>He then discusses CipherWave\u2019s plan to expand into the rest of Africa and details how this benefits existing clients.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview with Shamith Maharaj below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What&#039;s Next - CipherWave CEO Shamith Maharaj on their new expansion plans\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pHxuOfQOQ7U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CipherWave CEO Shamith Maharaj discusses CipherWave&#8217;s plans to expand across Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":525431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[20401,84195],"class_list":["post-525425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-cipherwave","tag-shamith-maharaj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525631,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525425\/revisions\/525631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}