Telkom Centres of Excellence

Institution Research Areas
Rhodes University Distributed Multimedia: virtual reality; IP telephony, protocols and intelligent agents
University of Fort Hare ICT for Development
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 within the general theme of Convergence
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