SEACOM fibre rollout for south of Johannesburg begins
SEACOM has begun its roll-out of fibre infrastructure to homes and businesses in the south of Johannesburg,*starting with 8 kilometres of fibre in Meyersdal, Alberton.
Microsoft’s South African data centres are great for cloud services
SEACOM has welcomed Microsoft’s plans to build hyperscale data centres in Cape Town and Johannesburg, saying it will boost cloud adoption in South Africa.
Demand for fibre set to boom in Africa – SEACOM
SEACOM Chief Development Officer Suveer Ramdhani has said the telecoms industry in South Africa and Africa is about to experience a fibre and mobile broadband boom.
SEACOM launches two additional points of presence
SEACOM has launched new points of presence in Rwanda and Botswana, through partnerships with local providers.
What the SEACOM cable break looked like
SEACOM recently experienced a service-affecting outage on its marine system located west of Djibouti in the Red Sea.
Massive capacity boost for SEACOM
SEACOM said it is lighting 500Gbps in new capacity on its backbone platform from Africa to Europe which came online in January 2017.
SEACOM planned downtime for more repairs
While repairing a recent fault on its cable, SEACOM discovered a “secondary marine fault” in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti.
SEACOM cable repair date confirmed
SEACOM stated that it has continued to activate “additional diverse restoration capacity” on its network, which means almost all customers who requested manual restoration “now have it”.
Better coverage and more bandwidth for SEACOM
In 2017, SEACOM will aggressively expand its coverage and grow its solutions portfolio for enterprise and operator customers.
It’s time to ditch your business ADSL connection – SEACOM
It is time for businesses to discontinue their ADSL and wireless connections and switch to fibre broadband, said SEACOM.
Fixed broadband and mobile data prices will drop in South Africa – SEACOM
SEACOM’s Suveer Ramdhani has shared his predictions for the Internet in South Africa and the rest of Africa.
SEACOM and IOX to connect Mauritius and Africa with R2.1-billion cable
IOX and SEACOM have signed a memorandum of understanding to build an undersea cable system connecting Africa and Mauritius.
Top speeds, data downloaded, and simultaneous connections on SEACOM at MyBroadband Conference 2016
SEACOM was the official connectivity supplier at this year’s MyBroadband Conference, bringing in 10Gbps of bandwidth for delegates to use for free during the event.
How South Africa’s Internet will be affected by SEACOM’s cable outage
SEACOM has said that services on its network will be affected by a cable fault in the Mediterranean, which requires repairs.