Introduction:

Datanet is one of the Sudanese Company for telecommunications [SUSATEL] group of companies. Datanet was established to face the challenges of the 21^st centaury. The company's aim was to play a leading role in addressing the changes brought about by third millennium. The company strives to facilitate the integration of Sudan in the Internet world and to help the country participate in the era of knowledge, advanced communications technology and easy flow of information.

 Datanet came into existence in 1999. The company was formed to satisfy the domestic IT market demand for highly qualified personnel who are capable of executing large scale projects according to international standards and with high quality and accuracy. The company achieves its objectives by offering the services of, the highly qualified, IT management department personnel. The IT management personnel have acquired very high qualifications from reputable training centers in the world, added to their qualifications is the vast experience they gained from their involvement in a wide variety of SUDATEL own projects. Datanet's IT personnel experience resulted in many benefits to SUDATEL, specifically there is a dramatic cut in Sudatel's running expenses together with a better performance and quality of service to Sudatel's customers.

After the success Datanet had with Sudatel, the company thought of transferring the experience to various governmental and private sector organizations. So, Datanet secured and carried out many successful projects which covered a wide range of IT activities in Sudan. However, Datanet was involved in installation of LANs, WANs, computer programming, Internet, technical consultancy, and providing comprehensive business solutions. Also, the company introduced many modern technologies in the Sudanese market, e.g. fiber optic networks, and use of HDSL equipment. Furthermore, the company intends to introduce even more advanced technologies through its relations with reputable international IT companies, manufacturers of computing hardware, and distributors of modern equipments.