SEACOM to Directly Connect Kenyan Businesses Through South Africa

By Njenga Hakeenah
April 3, 2019

Pan-African internet and connectivity service provider SEACOM will now offer direct connections from its East African network directly to public cloud networks and datacentres located South Africa.

This announcement follows the launch of Microsoft’s new enterprise-grade datacentres in South Africa based in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

SEACOM’s offering, available to business customers, will deliver direct, high-speed, dedicated and secure connectivity to the Microsoft datacentres via resilient network connections from Kenya to South Africa.

Acquisition of Fiberco’s network

SEACOM Managing Director Tonny Tugee said of this offering that the SEACOM subsea cable, which connects Kenya to South Africa, offers a fibre express route that carries Terabytes of capacity with speeds offered to business customers from as low as 50 Mbps up to 10Gbps.

“In addition to this, SEACOM’s recent acquisition of Fiberco’s network allows it to extend this capability across South Africa and into the major datacentres where the cloud providers, such as Microsoft, have a presence,” said Tugee.

Ten years ago, SEACOM brought Africa its first high-speed internet connectivity directly to Africa, opening the continent to the technological advancements enjoyed today.

In 2016, SEACOM scaled up its commitment to Africa, and now directly offers business customers solutions with high-speed, reliable internet connectivity and cloud solutions.

Through years of experience with global cloud providers as Microsoft, SEACOM has been able to provide solutions to businesses considering cloud solutions.

Data centres in South Africa

One such example is the launch of the Azure ExpressRoute offering, together with Microsoft, that allows SEACOM customers to extend their on-premises networks into the cloud without going over the public internet, which until now has only been limited to datacentres which sit outside of the African continent.

Microsoft’s recent launch of data centres in South Africa aims to accelerate the move of African businesses to the cloud and marks the first time businesses have access to datacentres, which sit on African soil.

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