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METISS submarine fibre cable now operational in Mauritius
Emtel , a telecoms network operator in Mauritius , has provided the only landing point for the Meltingpot Indianoceanic Submarine System ( METISS ) fibre optic cable in the country .
The 3,200 km cable connects Reunion Island , Madagascar and South Africa to Emtel ’ s ANSI / TIA tier three certified data centre in Arsenal , near Port-Louis , the country ’ s capital .
“ METISS is already connected to many global public cloud services , application providers and African exchanges with fully redundant backhaul in Mauritius and South Africa ,” said Kresh Goomany , CEO , Emtel .
“ It provides global telecoms organisations , multinationals and enterprises with interests in connected regions , with the reliable services and capacities they need for telecommunications that empower digital enterprises . The whole offer comes with a world-class Quality of Service ( QoS ) at very affordable prices .”
The METISS submarine cable offers highcapacity throughput and further connectivity to many African countries via Emtel and its partners . It enables organisations to benefit from colocation , private links , enterprisegrade Internet connectivity , with remote peering to content and cloud providers and peering agreements .
Mauritius is ideally situated to provide regional telecoms solutions to carriers , enterprises and corporates with its political stability and reliable electrical grid supply .
Combined with Emtel ’ s 24 / 7 enterprise support , advanced technology implementations and innovative solutions , these are among the many reasons Emtel ’ s Data Centre has maintained a 100 % uptime and availability record in delivering collocated services for the last nine years .
METISS connects Mauritius with Africa and the world via Emtel ’ s own Points of Presence ( PoP ) in Johannesburg and Durban , in South Africa . It provides new low latency routes for Over-The-Top ( OTT ) service providers .
The South Africa PoPs augment PoPs that are already in Mombasa , London , Paris and Singapore . In addition , METISS interconnects with large data centres in South Africa that act as a hub to the rest of the world and host global cloud service providers , such as AWS and Azure .
“ With the interconnectivity , peering and exchange benefits it provides , METISS gives Mauritians faster and more reliable access to digital resources and provides a platform to develop the country ’ s next-generation services and applications ,” Kresh said .
METISS offers much greater throughput in relation to the other older cables with lower capacities that Mauritians previously relied on . It paves the way for a new generation of applications and services to be delivered to end-users via technologies such as 5G .
“ The METISS consortium , of which Emtel is a member , overcame the difficulties associated with COVID-19 and lockdown restrictions to successfully install the cable in all four territories ,” Kresh added .
“ We are proud to make this advanced solution available to our country . Emtel has always aspired to revolutionise digital services for Mauritians , which is why we pioneered services such as Unlimited Internet Data , Calls and SMS to democratise access . METISS is part of our promise to bring Mauritians products that provide more freedom and satisfaction , and in so doing , continue to enhance their lives .” p
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