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Cybersecurity: Africa’s SEACOM Joins Forces with British Telecommunications
SEACOM acquires Africell Uganda Assets to Continue Expanding its East African Footprint African cable system firm SEACOM and British Telecommunications (BT) today announced a strategic partnership which will provide SEACOM with BT cybersecurity systems in order to further secure its own infrastructure and deliver new networking, security and communications solutions to enterprise customers in Africa. As a leading Internet connectivity supplier that owns Africa’s most extensive ICT infrastructure, SEACOM will be leveraging BT’s services, vendor relationships and global expertise to expand its portfolio of services aimed at African businesses. SEACOM’s customers are set to benefit from access to BT’s Cloud Security Incident Event Management (SIEM) platform. In today’s business environment da...
The Challenges in Getting Internet Access to All South Africans
South Africa is on a drive to connect its citizens to the Internet. In November 2021, the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Khumbudzo Ntshavheni announced that the government was considering a programme to bring internet access to all South Africans within the next 24 months. Attempting to bridge the country’s digital divide, the programme would not only enable access to online services but also provide opportunities for a digitally-driven economy. The proposed programme indicates South Africa’s determination to embrace digital transformation. Never before has Internet connectivity been so paramount to the expansion and development of economic activity, especially in the age of wide-reaching digital services. But what does broad Internet access look like locally, and what...
SEACOM Boosts its IP Network with a Serious Bandwidth Upgrade
Image sourced from the Design Quarter. SEACOM, a fibre-led telecoms provider and owner of extensive ICT infrastructure across Africa, has announced a 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GE) upgrade for its IP network. The increased capacity of 100 Gbps equipment reduces the cost and complexity associated with procuring and maintaining multiple 10 Gbps ports and also simplifies load balancing through the flexibility of having 10 times more bandwidth per port. Network providers will be able to add more customers, expand their networks, or reconfigure traffic flows without disrupting network traffic or incurring multiple cross-connecting fees. According to a statement from the company, this investment will allow ISPs, CDN’s, Global and African Providers to leverage SEACOM’s network infrastructure to acc...
Seacom Chief Strategy Officer Resigns
Seacom has announced that Chief Strategy Officer, Suveer Ramdhani, has resigned – there’s no word yet on who is set to replace him. He has been a part of the company since its inception in 2009. Ramdhani had a “founding role in the Seacom project and was responsible for the development of the business strategy of the submarine cable system along Africa’s east coast to Europe and Asia,” says the company in a statement to TechCentral. “He recently concluded the acquisition of FibreCo Telecommunications, which has positioned Seacom to operate a network that runs along South Africa’s highest-traffic transmission routes and links all major South African cities to Seacom’s submarine cable assets.” /* custom css */ .tdi_3_4f0.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_4f0.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0...
