Actually, the infrastructure does not have to be fibre, wireline. What would be useful is to see what is happening in the industry and as much as possible adhere to the standards that will allow for a horizontal growth. This needs to be in the blue print - overall konza blue print. There are many use cases for smart cities smart homes etc and whilst we should tailor make our solutions we should keep in mind that we ought to be able to allow for inter working and reuse of infrastructure. The tragic issue would be develop a bespoke smart city/ smart home infrastructure that does not allow for any flexibility. ETSI is currently working on standardisation and in fact have released the first issue of M2M. These are the guys who gave us GSM which is by far the most pervasive wireless standards. Hopefully, their work will gain as much traction in the M2M space. So far so good, at least going by the vendors in the different industries. On Oct 25, 2012 4:05 PM, "Dewalt Uys" <Dewalt@xon.co.za> wrote:

Smart cities....

In my view the correct foundation for Konza City is complete fibre infrastructure supported by a data centre for hosting services. Sure the banks will not hand over their data to the data centre but voice and email services can be hosted.

Best regards, Dewalt Uys General Manager - East Africa www.xon.co.za

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Hi listers/Ndemo I am attending a workshop in France on M2M (Machine 2 Machine). I think Konza City would do well if we could get the infrastructure right from the word go and have the city/ homes/ commercial property ready for it. It would be a showcase for the region what M2M can do for us.