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TelCables sets sights on expanding connectivity services throughout Southern Africa
TelCables is now pursuing agreements to expand its interconnectivity solutions into neighboring southern African countries after expanding to East Africa last year.
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TelCables, the South African unit of Angola Cables, is pursuing agreements to roll out interconnectivity to countries within Southern Africa, an expansion of its metropolitan networks in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Samuel Carvalho, Angola Cables' chief marketing officer, said in an interview on Thursday that South Africa was becoming a major interconnection hub for global connectivity.
Angola Cables specializes in digital and connectivity services such as wholesale interconnectivity and cloud computing among other enterprise IT solutions. Its South African unit, TelCables interconnects South Africa and metropolitans such as Johannesburg and Cape Town.
TelCables is now pursuing agreements to expand its interconnectivity solutions into neighboring southern African countries after expanding to East Africa last year.
'We now interconnect Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. From Teraco Cape Town to Teraco Durban and Johannesburg, and we are deploying major agreements with partners to have more networks and even to interconnect the neighboring countries of South Africa,' said Carvalho.
The digital and connectivity infrastructure that TelCables South Africa has invested into has also helped the company boost its expansion into East Africa.
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It is also expanding its network, products, and business into East Africa from its South African infrastructure. South Africa was important for Angola Cables as it has become 'the fifth main hub in the world' for interconnectivity.
'We are there not just to interconnect South Africa, we are also there to connect South Africa with the metropolitan network which is important,' Carvalho explained.
Angola is riding on its growing popularity as a gateway to Europe and Africa for internet interconnection. IT users are increasingly seeking connectivity solutions that are seamless and have low latency.
TelCables was also set to benefit from growing traffic from users in the Middle East and elsewhere in Africa 'that are willing to connect to Europe' through alternative routing.
'People are seeing that in the cases of cable disruption we are providing efficient connectivity and having a South African company we provide an efficient structure of redundancy and alternate routing that can provide access to Europe. We are connecting Europe from Africa to Brazil and Brazil to Europe,' said Carvalho.
The South African unit of Angola Cables 'plays a pivotal role in deploying our cloud services to Africa' through interconnecting to global cloud computing nodes.
TelCables South Africa has established a Point of Presence (PoP) at the Teraco Riverhorse DB1 data center in Durban, helping to expanding Angola Cables' reach. With this, Angola Cables is able to serve regional data centers and a gateway to international exchanges.
Apart from southern and east Africa, TelCables is also rolling out in Nigeria, west Africa. Rack Centre, a West African data centre, this week signed a strategic collocation agreement with TelCables Nigeria.
Through the partnership, TelCables Nigeria will deploy high capacity network and cloud infrastructure and four international subsea cable systems directly into Rack Centre's carrier ecosystem in the region.
'Our unique Africa – to - Latin America route via SACS, combined with MONET, SEBRAS and EllaLink, gives customers the lowest - latency paths to the Americas and Europe,' said Fernando Fernandes, CEO of TelCables Nigeria.
'Businesses in latency sensitive sectors: financial services, content delivery and real-time communications will experience faster transactions, reduced lag and an enhanced user experience. By hosting at Rack Centre we also localise Clouds2Africa resources, price them in naira, and remove expensive ingress/egress charges or FX exposure.'
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