What is the Centre of Excellence?

The Centres of Excellence (CoE) program was developed by Telkom SA to research various aspects of telecommunications. A number of corporate sponsors have joined Telkom SA to finance this program.  The CoEs are scientific and engineering research entities at South African universities and technikons. Each CoE consist of one or more units, each specialising in a research area.

Currently the NMMU CoE consist of three units.

• Distributed Multimedia Applications (DMA) Unit in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems,
• The Optical Fibre Research (OFR) Unit in the Department of Physics,
• The Photovoltaics (PV) Unit in the Department of Physics.

The NMMU CoE Units are sponsored by Telkom, Hezeki Contracting, MCT Telecommunications, Ingoma Communication Services, Dimension Data, TMFC, and THRIP. This sponsorship has allowed for the purchasing of high tech equipment to be used for postgraduate research.

SATNAC (South African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference) is the flagship of the Telkom CoE program. It is the annual event for Industry, Academia and Operators to publish on matters concerning achieved in applied research in the Information Communications and Technology (ICT) sector. SATNAC prides itself on being an ideal forum for postgraduate students to highlight successes achieved on their research. As many industry leaders also attend the conference, SATNAC as proved to be an excellent networking platform for the telecoms industry.

For more information, please visit www.satnac.org.za 

Contact Information
Mrs. Desma Van Der Walt
	Position: CoE Admin Assistant Phone: 27 41 504 2322 Fax: 27 41 504 2831 E-mail: desma.vanderwalt Location: Summerstrand Campus (South)