Partners
Stated as exactly what each one is.
A network security partner. A standing delivery partner. A national recognition from the company's earlier era. All real, all named, and none stretched into something they are not.
The partners
Network security partnerFortinetGlobal network security company. Partner for Fortinet firewalls, network administration, and security infrastructure.www.fortinet.com ↗
Delivery partnerTuppamanNamibian agribusiness and technology company. Delivery partner where agricultural operations meet ICT.tuppaman.com ↗
Where each partnership works.
Fortinet is the network security partner. The partnership covers Fortinet firewalls, network administration, and the security infrastructure underneath the systems we build: stated in full below, and in the announcement note.
Tuppaman is a Namibian agribusiness and technology company. That partnership is a delivery one: where agricultural operations meet ICT, equipment, logistics, and ground-level work, we deliver together.
Both scopes are stated as what they actually cover, because a partnership described loosely is a liability the first time someone checks it.
Network security partner
Network security you can put in a tender.
Fortinet is a network security company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Its FortiGate next-generation firewalls are among the most widely deployed network security appliances in the world, backed by FortiGuard Labs threat intelligence.
As a Fortinet partner, Tangison supplies, deploys, configures, and administers that infrastructure in Namibia: the firewall at the edge, the segmentation between finance systems, operations, and guest traffic, the secure links between offices and field sites, and the centralised management that watches all of it.
Namibian institutions advertise ICT tenders through the national e-procurement system, and many specify network equipment by brand while expecting the bidding company to hold the vendor's authorisation. With this partnership, a Tangison bid carries genuine Fortinet equipment, vendor authorisation, and a local team that installs, documents, and administers the solution after award.
What the partnership covers
- FortiGate firewall supply, deployment, and configuration
- Network segmentation and secure remote access
- Site-to-site links between offices and field sites
- Centralised management, monitoring, and reporting
- Ongoing administration and partner documentation for tenders
Heritage recognition, not a partnership
The NCRST boost, in its era.
While the company operated as Gemsweb Digital, the National Commission on Research, Science and Technology boosted its agent product. Recognition for applied AI built in Namibia, at the stage when it mattered most.
It is stated here as exactly that: a chapter in the company story from the Gemsweb Digital era. Not a current partnership, not an ongoing programme, and not stretched into an endorsement of today's work.
