These technologies will allow SEACOM more flexibility as it grows, reduce infrastructure costs and enable SEACOM to roll out robust cloud computing offerings for enterprise customers.
SEACOM had made substantial investments in expanding its network infrastructure during 2016 and plans to significantly upgrade network bandwidth in 2017 to cater for the growth of big data, the cloud and video.
SEACOM has invested in shifting all key elements of the network to 100G technology, which increases capacity throughput while reducing cost. Initially, SEACOM is lighting 500Gbps in new capacity on the new backbone platform from Africa to Europe that came on line in January 2017. Thanks to the new technology, additional upgrades can be done as needed with less than 30 days’ lead-time.
“SEACOM is the largest IP transit provider on the African continent, and has led the process of getting all the key content players into Africa. There will be continued growth from these “Over-The-Top-Players” and SEACOM is preparing for scale that will serve their future growth,” said SEACOM CEO, Byron Clatterbuck.
