Busi Matube, CUT’s ICT Director and Chief Digital Officer. The Central University of Technology (CUT), a leading higher education institution based in South Africa’s Free State province, has successfully rolled out phase one of its three-year network and WiFi infrastructure upgrade, an important step in the university’s digital transformation journey. The project is being completed in partnership with Datacentrix, a leading hybrid ICT systems integrator and managed services provider. Says Busi Matube, CUT’s ICT Director and Chief Digital Officer: “The driving force behind this infrastructure upgrade is our digital transformation strategy, with the aim of improving our connectivity efficiencies and speed, and our use of 4IR technologies. This will allow us to better leverage the internet of things (IOT) for other projects we have in place, such as smart buildings, smart bins, a virtual reality environment for our engineering students and more, located in different areas.” Prior to this implementation, she explains, CUT’s infrastructure was failing to meet the needs of both students and staff, with connectivity issues becoming a sore point for the university. In fact, according to Lucky Matjelo, Deputy Director: ICT Infrastructure Services at CUT, the university’s WiFi, which was set up in 2009 as its […]