MainOne has announced that its submarine cable in Cote d’Ivoire is live and ready for service. The project, notable for being the first commercial cable system in service to deploy spectrum sharing capabilities, will offer capabilities to deepen infrastructure sharing and lower the cost of delivering broadband services to the region. MainOne’s entry into the […]
Paratus, a leading telecoms operator with operational offices in six African countries, has now implemented additional routes for redundancy and is in the process of an aggressive rollout plan, building even more routes across the region to ensure maximum uptime for clients using this route. The company reported in August that it had finally completed […]
Liquid Telecom South Africa, part of the leading pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, together with a consortium of telecommunication companies, has officially inaugurated the landing station of the Melting Pot Indianoceanic Submarine System (METISS) at Umbogotwini in KwaZulu-Natal. The Project is expected to be completed and operational by July 2020. Dr. Angus Hay, General Manager […]
Altran, Benetel and Phluido have co-created a disaggregated, multi-organisation, containerised LTE RAN reference solution that provides 4G RAN services over existing cable networks. Working under the guidance of CableLabs, the companies developed the solution as part of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) vRAN Fronthaul Project Group. Containerisation of radio access network (RAN) solutions is significant […]
R&M CEO Michel Riva visited the UAE and joined top regional executives to officially launch the company’s new Cat. 8.1, Netscale 72 and inteliPhy net solutions in the Middle East. R&M has unveiled its new Cat. 8.1, Netscale 72 and inteliPhy net network cabling solutions in the Middle East. The launch in Dubai was attended […]
Leading Pan-African service provider, SEACOM, has talked of its planned partnership with Raxio Data Centre Ltd, Uganda’s first carrier-neutral, enterprise-grade data centre scheduled to launch in Q1 2020. At the forefront of driving connectivity in Africa, SEACOM recently launched enterprise connectivity solutions in Uganda. Raxio Uganda’s world-class facility will become the cornerstone of digitisation in […]
Nextgenaccess, a UK wholesale provider of full fibre broadband infrastructure, has announced a new carrier agreement with SSE Enterprise Telecoms. SSE Enterprise Telecoms has ordered a new fibre route in order to connect its 12,000km UK-wide network to the NGD (Next Generation Data) data centre in Wales. This follows an increase in demand for high […]
To help Africa realise the benefits of the data economy, more data centres in the region are urgently needed. However, building data centres starts with enabling access to the ICT infrastructure and ecosystems, and there are several barriers Africa faces. “All of the big trends that are shaping economies today, from cloud data centres, smart […]
GTT Communications, a leading global cloud networking provider to multinational clients, has announced the upgrade of its fibre network across several of its European routes. The network upgrades enhance the capacity and performance capability of GTT’s Tier 1 global IP network footprint for its enterprise and carrier clients. GTT has upgraded routes that connect network […]
Colt Technology Services has announced that it has upgraded its award-winning Colt IQ Network by deploying the most advanced optical technology. This upgrade saw Colt deploy a combination of Ciena’s market-leading WaveLogic Ai technology with a conversion to flexible grid photonics. This combination will deliver a significant uplift in the core network capacity and pave […]
