Q-KON Newsletter January (abbreviated without images)

Welcome Note

Each new beginning gives one the opportunity to review the past and look ahead to the future. For Q-KON, the beginning of 2006 is an opportunity for me to thank all our valued customers, partners and suppliers as well as the Q-KON team for their support and commitment to the Q-KON vision.

2005 marked our 17th year of business as well as our 5thyear in export services and expertise into Africa. Having completed projects in more than 50% of the countries in Africa and providing on-going satellite services to 10 countries, Q-KON can be proud of our efforts.

Looking forward to 2006 we can expect that doing business in Africa will continue to pose its unique challenges, difficulties and opportunities. As a team, Q-KON is committed to continually strive to meet our customer’s expectations and to continue our winning recipe to "Turn Visions into Reality". -Dawie de Wet.  Managing Director / CEO

"On-demand" Satellite Access Services

Would you agree that monthly bandwidth contracted and not sold within the month is lost for ever –it can never be sold again. Therefore, excess bandwidth = a $ loss for Internet access and service providers. Q-KON recently engineered our "On-demand" satellite access services solution in our continuous focus to harness technology in innovative ways to the business benefit of our customers. Some of the principles of the business model include:

1.  Bandwidth is no longer sold to the ISP "per-month" but rather on a "per-session/hour" basis. An ISP now only buys what he sells when he sells it i.e. "On-demand"

2.  Access is provided on a prepay basis using access vouchers.

3.  "Unlimited" bandwidth is made available on request to a specific site therefore the business can maximize income during the ‘busy’ times (normally office hours)…To find out how this solution can increase your business profitability and improve your monthly cash flow, please contact enquiries@qkon.com

Register NOW for our March VSAT training courses!

During the last quarter of 2005 Q-KON’s training academy trained more than 150 students in our VSAT and VoIP training programs. Our training academy recognizes the need to constantly update skills as well as to broaden the skills base of African engineers. This is because the half-life of an engineering degree is now assessed as being as little as four years and a significant proportion of specialist skill and knowledge will quickly be out of date and become increasingly irrelevant unless topped up by continuous professional development. Q-KON’s training academy offers you the opportunity to update your skills in the ever-growing VSAT & VoIP industries. We also offer in-house training for groups larger than 20. For more info please contact training@qkon.com

Using VoIP: IP PBX Branch Office Application

Quintum Tenor supports the circuit network components of an IP-PBX network, providing connectivity to analogue end points and local connectivity to the PSTN. The Tenor can connect remote offices to the corporate IP-PBX through the LAN or WAN and can assure survivability for the remote office should the IP network suffer an outage. Tenor offers a single device that provides intelligent connectivity for non-VoIP devices and connectivity to the PSTN for local calls & 911...For more info contact your Quintum distributor for Sub-Saharan Africa at enquiries@qkon.com