Turning our attention to the thriving market in South Africa for a minute, we find that while broadband has become considerably more available and affordable in recent years, the challenge of last mile connectivity remains.

As it does in many other places.

According to officials of Nology, getting the available bandwidth from the service provider to the business or home can be expensive, and “the most affordable best effort broadband links are not up to capacity, have no quality of service (QoS), and do not have guaranteed speeds.”

But other than that, everything’s okay?

Seriously, this is an all too common scenario. Yes, granted wireless connectivity is not always cost-effective for the majority of businesses and home users as a full-time option, Nology officials say “because of last mile connectivity issues, ADSL is mostly oversubscribed.”

Nology has an answer, as a supplier of broadband, networking and communication hardware and other products in South Africa. They recommend the Voice over Internet Broadband Enhancement technology called ViBE.

ViBE, which this just might be your introduction to, is described by company officials as “a new technology that circumnavigates the existing bottlenecks in the last mile to deliver clear, concise VOIP, even on low available bandwidth.”

As Ernst Ohlhoff, VoIP Business Unit Manager at Nology explains, “the MyBroadband Conference is the premier event of the year for new developments in broadband, as well as the latest trends and technology. As such, it is the perfect platform to showcase our revolutionary ViBE product.”

Company officials explain that ViBE works by stripping away protocol overhead and retaining only the actual voice data, “providing QoS to ensure that voice always has priority over data, and allowing users to conduct four times the number of voice calls on the same amount of bandwidth.”

Almost exactly a year ago, TMC’s Beecher Tuttle wrote that Du Pont Telecom (News - Alert) announced that it signed a partnership agreement with Nology, stipulating that through the accord, Du Pont will become an official distributor of Nology’s line of Yealink (News - Alert) VoIP phones, which simplify businesses communication with a high standard of security.