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H3iSquared: 20 Years of

Engineering Reliability

hen H3iSquared was founded Over the past 20 years, H3iSquared has supported infrastructure
in 2006, its name already projects across South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Botswana, Ghana
Wcontained the philosophy that and Nigeria, often working alongside system integrators and
would guide the company for the next engineering firms delivering mission-critical communications
two decades. Inspired by the chemical networks.
formula H 2O, the company’s formula
for success became Honesty, Humility, Today the company specialises in industrial networking,
Humour and Integrity — with Integrity substation communications, ruggedised infrastructure
squared. As founder Doron Kowensky equipment and consulting services, while also expanding into
explains, without integrity the rest is engineering development and PCB design for electronic proof-of-
simply empty words. concept solutions.

The company began by representing Rather than a single celebration event, H3iSquared is marking
Ruggedcom industrial networking its twentieth year as a year of reflection, appreciation and
equipment manufactured in Canada, innovation, recognising the staff, customers and partners who
initially focusing on the mining sector. It have supported the journey.
quickly became clear, however, that the
technology was even more valuable in Looking ahead, the company remains focused on industrial
one of the most demanding environments cybersecurity, smart grid communications, renewable energy
of all — electrical power infrastructure. infrastructure and expanding engineering services across Africa.

This strategic shift opened the door Because in mission-critical networks, reliability matters most —
to one of H3iSquared’s earliest major and H3iSquared continues delivering Unique Concept Solutions,
milestones: securing a direct supply often at its best when the environment is at its worst.
contract with Eskom, South Africa’s
national power utility. From that point Visit www.h3isquared.com to find out more.
forward, the company built its reputation
not simply as a supplier of equipment,
but as a technical partner capable of
understanding complex communications
networks and helping engineers design,
troubleshoot and deploy robust systems.

A significant chapter in the company’s
history came when Siemens acquired
Ruggedcom in 2011. H3iSquared was
invited to continue representing
the product line within the region,
strengthening what has since become
a long-standing partnership with
Siemens Canada, the Ruggedcom
manufacturing centre.

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