{"id":39161,"date":"2011-12-01T13:19:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T11:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=39161"},"modified":"2011-12-01T14:19:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T12:19:19","slug":"wiocc-and-cablewireless-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/39161-wiocc-and-cablewireless-partner.html","title":{"rendered":"WIOCC and Cable&#038;Wireless partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"WIOCC\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/385221-WIOCC\">WIOCC<\/a> today (1 December 2011) announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with <a title=\"Cable &amp; Wireless\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/352932-Cable-amp-Wireless\">Cable&amp;Wireless<\/a> Worldwide to improve the reliability, performance and reach of international connectivity in and out of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Through C&amp;W Worldwide, WIOCC has invested in two new submarine cable systems &#8211; the <a title=\"EIG - Europe India Gateway\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/386275-EIG-Europe-India-Gateway\">Europe India Gateway (EIG)<\/a> and <a title=\"West Africa Cable System (WACS)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/355686-WACS-(West-Africa-Cable-System)\">West Africa Cable System (WACS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These additional investments enable WIOCC to create a ring around Africa and into Europe and extend its existing regional and international services the length of Africa\u2019s western seaboard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis strategic investment in new high-capacity submarine cable systems strengthens our existing \u2018east+west coast diversity\u2019 proposition and provides our carrier clients with even greater network resilience and redundancy,\u201d said WIOCC CEO <a title=\"Chris Wood\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/384005-Chris-Wood\">Chris Wood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WIOCC already offers telcos and internet service providers (ISPs) connectivity to over 400 locations across 20 southern and eastern African countries, utilising more than 50,000 km of shareholder and partner-owned terrestrial fibre.<\/p>\n<p>This new agreement will enable WIOCC to reach up to 10 additional countries on Africa\u2019s west coast.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39163\" style=\"width: 433px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/39161-wiocc-and-cablewireless-partner.html\/attachment\/wiocc-cable-system\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39163\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39163\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39163\" title=\"WIOCC cable system\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/WIOCC-cable-system.jpg\" alt=\"WIOCC cable system\" width=\"423\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/WIOCC-cable-system.jpg 423w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/WIOCC-cable-system-50x75.jpg 50w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/WIOCC-cable-system-93x140.jpg 93w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WIOCC cable system<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIOCC and Cable&#038;Wireless Worldwide partner to boost network connectivity in and out of Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":39165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,7129,7127,6815,1517],"class_list":["post-39161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-active","tag-cablewireless","tag-cablewireless-worldwide","tag-chris-wood","tag-wiocc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39167,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39161\/revisions\/39167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}