[ Insights ]

Engineering perspectives on Africa's digital build-out.

Briefings from our delivery teams — what we're seeing on the ground, what we're recommending to clients.

Why Africa needs Tier III data center capacity, urgently[ Infrastructure Trends ]

Why Africa needs Tier III data center capacity, urgently

Local sovereign workloads, regulatory pressure and the latency math behind on-continent compute.

JM
May 2026 · 6 min read
Hardening branch networks against ransomware in 2026[ Cybersecurity ]

Hardening branch networks against ransomware in 2026

Segmentation, EDR and out-of-band management — what we're deploying for tier-1 banks.

AK
Apr 2026 · 8 min read
Fiber to the tower: backhaul lessons from 800 km[ Telecom Innovation ]

Fiber to the tower: backhaul lessons from 800 km

Splice loss budgets, OPGW vs ADSS, and the realities of underground duct in Nairobi.

DO
Apr 2026 · 5 min read
Hybrid solar for mission-critical sites: a 99.98% uptime case study[ Infrastructure Trends ]

Hybrid solar for mission-critical sites: a 99.98% uptime case study

Sizing, BMS integration and the genset orchestration that delivered three-nines availability.

FA
Mar 2026 · 7 min read
The smart city CCTV stack — what to specify, what to avoid[ Cybersecurity ]

The smart city CCTV stack — what to specify, what to avoid

Camera-to-platform integration, ANPR pitfalls and storage economics at city scale.

SO
Feb 2026 · 10 min read
5G backhaul readiness across East African MNOs[ Telecom Innovation ]

5G backhaul readiness across East African MNOs

Where the bottlenecks are, and what operators should be procuring this year.

LA
Jan 2026 · 9 min read