Broadband provider SEACOM plans to invest further in its Africa network to help spur on growth of the continent’s telecoms infrastructure and deliver high-quality services.
According to the firm, it is making extensive investments in terrestrial backhaul, additional subsea connectivity and its pan-African IP/MPLS network.
SEACOM says it has upgraded its South African backhaul networks, linking its West and East coast cable assets through activation of multiple wavelengths between Johannesburg and Cape Town, coupled with upgrades of the network platforms that support its services to major cable interconnection hubs in Yzerfontein and Mtunzini, the firm said in a statement.
Speaking about the company's investment plans Brian Herlihy, SEACOM’s founder and executive director said, "These were the last missing pieces of the puzzle we needed to put in place to realise our vision of creating a ring of resilient connectivity around Africa."
He added, "Our most recent investments will allow us to offer higher-quality services to our service provider and network operator customers, so that they in turn can provide higher quality and more reliable services to their customers.” said .
Furthermore, SEACOM revealed that it has acquired additional West coast subsea capacity to meet demand from both its transmission and IP/MPLS customers to create highly-resilient service platforms in both southern and eastern Africa.
SEACOM’s move to communicate its upgrading efforts come after a number of high level management changes following the exit of CEO Mark Simpson.
SEACOM operates a 17,000km subsea broadband cable that connects Africa’s eastern coastline to Europe and Southern Asia. The company also has an African cloud computing services business Pamoja.
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