Pan African Telecom company, SEACOM, has upgraded its key submarine network system from its Southern and Eastern African coastline landings into Europe at a total capacity of 1.5Tbps. The current upgrade is adding 500G of new capacity on the system, after a previous upgrade of 500G about 18 months ago. This further upgrade falls in line with SEACOM’s focus on driving the development ofthe African internet and opening the broadband tap for African service providers and business users.
The upgrade increases available capacity in SEACOM’s key markets: Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, and South Africa. The solution will allow SEACOM to deliver requirements for high capacity connectivity in very short timeframes and provide for future demands.
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The latest deployment is also based on 100Gbps Coherent DWDM technology, and will provide room for SEACOM to quickly add more capacity as required.
“Connectivity services in Africa are booming due to the growing needs of business IT users, the rise of cloud-based services, and growing requirements for the processing and storing of personal data,” says Claes Segelberg, Chief Technology Officer at SEACOM. “This latest upgrade enables SEACOM to meet those demands, and to provide our customers with scalable solutions for the future.”
Acha kudanganya watu. Those guys supply internet to major telcos who distribute it to the end consumer which means the speeds will have further been stepped down to probably a maximum of 150Mbps. It’s like venye Kengen wanaproduce 1,817.82MW of electricity but users get like kW
I recently went to Matuu huko ndani kabisa and there is a Sfaricom mast with 4G, the speeds are crazy since very few people live there and very few people have 4G / LTE divices. So we had like a dedicated line. Using the built in LTE modem ya lapie speed test ilikuwa inasoma 118 Down by 86 Up