TeleGeography, a global telecommunications market research and consulting firm, has launched its 2021 Submarine Cable Map, sponsored by Telecom Egypt. According to the research company the map visualises 464 global cables and 1,245 landing stations, as well as major future deployments. It also analyses the changing dynamics in the market and influence of new players...
Affordable connectivity is available in more towns and cities in South Africa after capacity wholesaler WIOCC extended its national hyperscale network with a further 30 Points of Presence (PoPs) along the country’s southern coastline – between Cape Town and Durban. Part of a multi-billion Rand investment by WIOCC to enhance its network infrastructure in South...
Broadband connectivity is currently a popular product around the world. Guaranteeing companies’ access to high quality is the objective set by Angola Cables, which wants to become a world benchmark supplier. Angola Cables has strengthened the data capacities of its international submarine fiber optic cable called MONET. 2.2 terabits were added to the network segments connecting Miami...
A 3 200km submarine cable that connects SA with Mauritius, Reunion Island and Madagascar has gone live. In a statement today, Emtel, a telecom network operator in Mauritius, says it has provided the only landing point for the Meltingpot Indianoceanic Submarine System (METISS) fibre optic cable in the country. The 3 200km cable connects Reunion Island,...
A new submarine cable that connects Djibouti, Somalia and Kenya is now active after more than 5 years of work. 4,900 km long, it is equipped with the latest generation of optical fiber. The consortium behind the project brings together Djibouti Telecom, Somtel, Hormuud Telecom and Telkom Kenya. They have invested a total amount of over 81...
Digital infrastructure company Equinix Inc and telecoms giant Vodafone are to build a new subsea hub as part of the massive 2Africa cable system that will directly connect 16 countries in Africa to Europe and the Middle East. The hub, called GN1, will be in Genoa on Italy’s northwest coast, a site the partners describe...
While internet and data transmission provider Seacom has announced a series of changes to its leadership structure – most recently that of Prenesh Padayachee as Group Chief Digital Officer, the company is adamant the changes were expected and will not impact its ongoing strategy to engage Africa. In mid-January 2021, ITWeb Africa reported that Padayachee had been...
