Telkom Centres of Excellence

Institution Research Areas
Rhodes University

Distributed Multimedia: projects virtual reality; IP telephony, protocols and intelligent agents.
University of Fort Hare Electronic Commerce

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Multimedia software: include usability laboratory projects, virtual classroom; Programming tools and 3D system design
Optical Fibre Measurements
Solar Energy Research
University of Stellenbosch Satellite communication, speech and image processing.
University of Cape Town ATM/Broadband Networks and their Applications with research on MPLS and IP networks; congestion control and network performance.
University of the Witwatersrand Telecommunications Access and Services based on the TINA Architecture.
University of Limpopo Automatic Speech technology.
University of Johannesburg Optical Communications
Operational Support Systems
University of Pretoria NGN with a main focus towards network security and fraud detection.
University of Kwazulu Natal Radio access involving CDMA receivers; traffic modelling; adaptive antenna arrays and resource management.
Rural telecommunications with a variety of projects ranging in the wireless networking arena.
North-West University Mobile e-Services.
University of the Western Cape Internet Protocol (IP) Networks and their Applications.
University of Zululand Mobile e-Services.
Vaal University of Technology Power - Fuel Cells technology and optic fibre research.
University of the Free State Human-computer Interaction.
Tshwane University of Technology Radio planning: projects involved in comparing the calculated or predicted value of radio signals with measured signals.