Sentech Presents to the Portfolio Committee on Communications

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Sentech Presents to the Portfolio Committee on
Communications

• 3 September 2003

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The Sentech Team

• Gladwin Marumo
• Johan Raath
• Dingane Dube
• Matime Nchabaleng
• Jeremiah Sikhosana
• At your service

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Nepad Imperatives

• Build infrastructure
• Grow Africa
• Universal access
• Affordability
• Bridging the digital divide
• African focus with South African realities

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South African Issues

• Some of the most expensive telephone calls in the
  world
• Especially taking our relative standard of living
  indices into account
• Some of our people that have never used a
  telephone
• Voice access is vital
• Internet access is but a dream
• Digital abyss

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Sentech already

• Provides broadband communication facilities
  anywhere in South and Southern Africa
• Provides internet connectivity
• Links schools in a tele-education network
• Provides the backbone and facilities for
  telemedicine solutions
• Has become the communications driver for
  community telecentres
• And we have only launched one of our exciting
  multimedia product lines

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The Orange Farm Experience
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Telecentres

• Sentech has provided broadband connectivity to
  the Siyabonga Telecentre at Orange Farm
• VSAT
• Internet
• Providing fast internet access to a community
• The centre already had paying internet customers
  after 1 week.
• Monthly fee
• Building towards a sustainable business
• Sentech will assist with the implementation of
  100 telecentres
• A bridge over the digital divide

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Telemedicine

• Sentech has a working telemedicine solution
• Public/Private partnership
• XRAY images stored and forwarded, diagnosed and
  reported
• XRays taken at Frontier Hospital in Queenstown
  are being diagnosed in Johannesburg
• Efficient utilisation of resources
• Fast diagnostics
• Access to professional radiological services.
• Increased revenue earning potential for state
  hospitals
• Medical aids will increasingly send patients to
  state hospitals

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Digitisation

• Paving the way to increased coverage and
  diversity
• Sentech has proven DTT
• DTT is cheaper for the broadcaster
• DTT fits the convergence roadmap
• True interactivity
• South African infrastructure
• Lower reliance on dollar-based services

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Leveraging digitisation

• Lower cost decoder
• Local manufacture
• Incentives
• Export opportunities
• Local skills
• Regional television leads the way
• More broadcasters the frequency conundrum is
  solved.
• Dont try to lead the world, but use technology
  to build business

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Multimedia Principles

• Broadband and wideband access to converged
  communication services
• Image
• Data
• Video
• Television
• Radio
• And dare we say it

Voice
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Multimedia and Voice

• In a converged world
• Multimedia means communications of any form

Sentech is providing broadband access but our
customers cannot use it for the most common form
of human communication - voice
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Sentechs Vision To provide world-class
communication services combined with excellence
in customer satisfaction.

• Business
• Consumer
• Communities
• Nepad

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Sentech launches broadband VSAT
Internet Access Networking Intranet Broadband
connectivity
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Network topology
Remote Sites
SATELLITE (KU-BAND)
NETWORK OPERATION SYSTEM
Head Office
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Orange Farm
Other Telecentres
SATELLITE (KU-BAND)
Network Operation System
Siyabonga
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Voice?
Internet Access
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Telemedicine Topology
Sentech

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Sentech Telemedicine Solution
Frontier Hospital
SATELLITE (KU-BAND)
Mining Sector
Image distribution, storage and Management
Radiology Centres of Excellence
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HPi-community services
e-Government e-Learning
Rebone
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Bakenberg
Ga-Mapele
Telemedicine Voice?
Mahwelereng