Seacom buys bandwidth on Google's massive undersea cable
Seacom has launched services on the Google-owned Equiano undersea cable, promising private lines with latencies of 110 milliseconds between South Africa and Europe.
The company says this is the fastest direct route between the continents.
World's longest undersea fibre cable lands in Amanzimtoti
The West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC) expects to land the Facebook-backed, 45,000km-long 2Africa undersea fibre cable at Amanzimtoti near Durban on Monday, according to reports.
This comes after successful landings at Yzerfontein...
2africa
alphabet
center3
chine mobile international
equiano
facebook
google
meta platforms
mtn globalconnect
open access data centres (oadc)
orange
telecom egypt
vodacom
vodafone
westindianoceancablecompany (wiocc)
Where Facebook's massive 2Africa cable will land in South Africa
Facebook's 2Africa undersea cable will land at three sites in South Africa and will substantially increase South Africa's international Internet capacity.
The three sites include Duynefontein in the Western Cape, Mtunzini in...
Photos of MTN GlobalConnect's 2Africa undersea cable landing in South Africa
The world’s longest undersea cable, 2Africa, has made landfall at Duynefontein near Cape Town.
MTN GlobalConnect officially announced the landing on Tuesday. It brought the cable to shore last week.
---
Facebook's...
2africa
alcatel submarine networks
china mobile international
facebook
meta platforms
mohammed aliyu
mtn
mtn globalconnect
orange
saudi telecommunication company
telecom egypt
vodafone
westindianoceancablecompany (wiocc)
Open Access Data Centres building three core data centres for South Africa
Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has announced the launch of data centres in Lagos, Nigeria and Johannesburg, South Africa.
The company said it is also completing the phase 2 expansion of its Durban facility, and is busy...
Google's massive 144 Tbps undersea cable lands in South Africa
Google has landed its Equiano undersea cable at Telkom’s facility in Melkbosstrand, WIOCC has announced.
WIOCC owns one of Equiano’s 12 terabit-per-second (Tbps) fibre pairs and was Google’s landing partner in Lagos, Nigeria.
Growth of data centres in South Africa
South Africa's data centre market is growing rapidly, with industry players building bigger and more advanced data centres.
The list of companies with facilities in the country continues to grow after Teraco kicked off South Africa's carrier-neutral data...
alphabet
amazon
amazon web services (aws)
google
huawei
microsoft
microsoft azure
nippon telegraph and telephone (ntt)
oracle
teraco
vantage data centres
westindianoceancablecompany (wiocc)
Open Access Data Centres appoints CEO
Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has appointed Ayotunde Coker as its new CEO.
OADC said Coker's leadership would support and accelerate the construction and operation of a pan-African network of Tier III certified data centre facilities and a unique...
Google's undersea cable one step closer to South Africa
Google’s Equiano subsea cable has landed in Lagos, Nigeria — its second in a series of landings on the African continent.
“We are partnering with multiple key telecom players, including our landing party, the West Indian Ocean Cable...
South African networks mum on NSA spying
An analysis by Priority One Security, published in its “Sniffmap”, suggested that 60% of the telecommunications routes in South Africa may be intercepted by the NSA
eastern africa submarine cable system (eassy)
headline
internet solutions
neotel
priority one security (p1sec)
seacom
sniffmap
tata communications
telkom
west africa cable system (wacs)
westindianoceancablecompany (wiocc)