Paul Colmer
Paul Colmer is a leading advocate for expanding affordable, reliable connectivity across South Africa. Serving on WAPA’s Executive Committee, he works closely with regulators and industry to promote open spectrum, dynamic sharing, and policies that empower small and rural ISPs.
For wireless networking in South Africa, Paul Colmer is one of the top individual authors and commentators, especially in the WISP and spectrum policy space. He has the highest volume of public-facing articles on wireless topics in SA, particularly for WAPA and related publications.
A Guide to Open PON Environment
Many ISPs operate in an environment where OLT manufacturers restrict the use of third-party ONTs, creating costly and inflexible vendor lock-in. This presentation explores how operators can break free from those constraints using multi-vendor HALNy Networks terminals powered by an innovative Adaptive OMCI Stack — a plug-and-play solution that allows ONTs to automatically discover and adapt to a wide range of OLTs (including Huawei, ZTE, and Nokia) without firmware changes.
gNMIc — On Your Marks, GET / SET / Subscribe / Collect
Modern network operations demand a shift from periodic polling to real-time, streaming observability. This talk introduces gNMIc — a modern, highly scalable gRPC Network Management Interface collector with full gNMI protocol support for streaming telemetry. The session covers how gNMIc can be deployed to deliver continuous visibility into network state, enabling operators to move beyond traditional SNMP-based monitoring toward a more responsive, data-rich operational model.
Huawei
As a new chapter in intelligent transformation is being written, Huawei works with customers and partners around the world to seamlessly integrate Information and Communications Technology (ICT) with industry scenarios. This is spearheading the kind of innovation in infrastructure that drives digital and intelligent transformation, supporting a vast range of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and applications for all industries.