Liquid Dataport, a business of
Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, today announced it has
launched the first terrestrial fibre connecting Mombasa to Johannesburg.
This new route, including a
breakthrough and unique fibre link across DRC between Goma and Kananga,
provides multiple landlocked countries with extra redundancy, resilience,
connectivity to numerous data centres and cloud resources, and, most
significantly, an alternative option in the event of a subsea cable outage
between Kenya and South Africa.
“Cassava Technologies is committed to making digital
inclusion a reality on the African continent. This milestone achieved by Liquid
Dataport reiterates our commitment to a digitally connected future that leaves
no African behind through our continuous investments towards improving and
expanding our digital infrastructure. This route will not only bring increased
access to high-speed connectivity but will also improve lives and allow
businesses to create and sustain millions of jobs,” says Hardy Pemhiwa, President and
Group CEO of Cassava Technologies.
The exponential demand for
connectivity directly results from the increasing adoption of digital
technologies by enterprises across the continent. Consequently, there is an
urgent need for service providers and international carriers like Liquid
Dataport to cater to this growing demand seamlessly. This route that will
connect South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and the DRC is
yet another testament to Liquid Dataport’s commitment to improving access to
digital services for everyone in Africa dramatically.
Commenting on the launch of this new route, David Eurin, CEO of Liquid
Dataport, said, “This is the first
terrestrial-only cable connecting Mombasa to Johannesburg via DRC. It is the
result of our significant fibre infrastructure investments in several
countries, including Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, DRC, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South
Africa. With this new route, we are able to provide our existing and future
customers access to an intelligent network with increased resilience and low
latency. It not only provides redundancy but was designed to provide additional
capacity to the landlocked countries on the route with direct access to cloud
resources on the African continent and beyond”.
This route offers hyperscalers, enterprises, and wholesale carriers direct
connectivity to data centres in Johannesburg and Nairobi. Investments in the
Equiano sea cable and significant capacity on the PEACE and 2Africa undersea
fibre cables together with its extensive terrestrial cross-border fibre
broadband network ensure that Liquid’s customers benefit from low-cost
international capacity landing on both the Kenyan and South African shores
wherever they need it on the Continent.
