INTELLIGENT CABLING
Angola Cables and Broadband
Infraco sign MoU
ultinational telecoms company,
Angola Cables, has announced
that it has signed a Memorandum
of Understanding with Broadband Infraco.
From a South African connectivity
perspective, Broadband Infraco currently
has more than 14,960 km of fibre networks
across the South African geography. It
also has 156 Points of Presence (PoPs)
providing a high capacity, stable national
network environment. Angola Cables CEO,
Antonio Nunes, said that the partnership will
facilitate Internet connectivity into Africa.
“With our international connectivity and
reach through our submarine networks
and the expansive terrestrial network
of Broadband Infraco, there is a genuine
opportunity for us to collectively fast-track
connectivity on the continent,” he said.
“The very real possibility now exists
to connect Brazil and South Africa to the
other BRICS nations of Russia, India and
China through a high speed, low latency
connection. Such a connection, together
with our robust network, will accelerate
international co-operation on multiple
levels, promote economic development
and fast-track projects that will enable new
opportunities for digital content exchange
across the region.”
Andrew Matseke, CEO of Broadband
Infraco, added that the partnership is
pivotal in the development of digital
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connectivity within South Africa and the
rest of the continent. “We have POPs and
fibre connectivity options to all neighbouring
SADC countries,” he said. “Through the
Angola Cables subsea networks, SACS and
Monet, Broadband Infraco will have the
ability to share international traffic and
content that could unlock new business
opportunities for SADC countries.”
Nunes added: “Angola Cables will
also be in a position to support our new
partner in other projects that are of
national importance and which require
global network connectivity. An example
of this, is the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
Project, the world’s largest telescope where
Broadband Infraco is the main supplier of
international capacity to Europe. Given
the large data requirements, the scientific
information can now be shared with other
entities. The cooperation between the
two companies will also advance business
channel synergies. This offers South African
consumers an improved usage, low-latency
or ‘no lag experience’ which is particularly of
benefit to the gaming community – or other
users requiring greater bandwidth via the
SACS routing to South America.”
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