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Google unveil a subsea cable
connecting Africa with Europe
G
oogle has introduced Equiano, a new private subsea cable
that will connect Africa with Europe. Once complete, Equiano
will start in western Europe and run along the West Coast of Africa,
between Portugal and South Africa, with branching units along the
way that can be used to extend connectivity to additional African
countries. The first branch is expected to land in Nigeria.
Google’s private subsea cables all carry the names of historical
luminaries, and Equiano is no different. Named for Olaudah
Equiano, a Nigerian-born writer and abolitionist who was enslaved
as a boy, the Equiano cable is state-of-the-art infrastructure
based on space-division multiplexing (SDM) technology, with
approximately 20 times more network capacity than the last cable
built to serve this region.
Equiano will be the first subsea cable to incorporate optical
switching at the fibre-pair level, rather than the traditional
approach of wavelength-level switching.
This greatly simplifies the allocation of cable capacity, giving the
flexibility to add and reallocate it in different locations as needed.
The first phase of the project, connecting South Africa with
Portugal, is expected to be completed in 2021.
Equiano will
connect Africa
with Europe
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Redstor launches mobile app that
provides secure access to data
R
edstor has launched a new app, giving customers instant,
secure access to their data from their mobile devices. It is the
latest initiative by the company that is disrupting the world of data
management with pioneering technology developed in South Africa.
With Redstor Mobile for Android and iOS, customers can:
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reducing investment in primary storage. Redstor also enables
organisations to simplify deployment and billing, improve security
and obtain borderless visibility of their entire data estate.
Connect and manage multiple accounts on a single device
Browse, download and share files
Monitor usage trends
View history and status of backup tasks
Developed in response to customer demand, the new app is
the latest automated feature in Redstor’s unique cloud data
management solution.
Thomas Campbell, Technical Services Director at Redstor, said: “This
new mobile app provides users with data management and access to
data wherever they are. It is free to download, available to all Redstor
cloud customers and is already attracting great interest.”
As part of a long-term strategy to treble revenue by 2020, Redstor
is offering improved ways of tackling compliance, data growth,
recovery from ransomware attacks, flexible cloud integration and
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