INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cabling
MainOne’s submarine cable is
ready for service in Cote d’Ivoire
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enterprises, riding on its submarine cable
along West Africa to the rest of the world.
Likewise, MainOne is also announcing the
availability of its Cote d’Ivoire data centre
facility built to Tier III standards, to address
the needs of corporate clients, public
institutions and service providers for shared
services, supporting their cost reduction
and operational efficiency drive. It will offer
rack spaces for customers to collocate their
IT infrastructure with ease, while gaining
access to fully redundant power, cooling,
carrier-grade security and fire prevention
facilities on a shared basis. The facility will
enable businesses in Cote d’Ivoire attain
significant savings in the deployment of
their compute infrastructure and carrier
neutral interconnection with multiple
operators, providing them value added
services and ensuring that they can stay
focus on their core business, while MainOne
manages their resources.
MainOne’s submarine
cable in Cote d’Ivoire
is now live
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ainOne has announced that its
submarine cable in Cote d’Ivoire
is live and ready for service.
The project, notable for being the first
commercial cable system in service to deploy
spectrum sharing capabilities, will offer
capabilities to deepen infrastructure sharing
and lower the cost of delivering broadband
services to the region.
MainOne’s entry into the Cote d’Ivoire
market will facilitate world-class
infrastructure availability and accessibility
that meets market needs at any time.
The network will ensure its customers
continue to enjoy maximum uptime
performance and reduced latency as the
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company increases bandwidth capacity
and maintain direct connections to various
regional and global Internet Exchanges
including the Nigerian Internet Exchange
(IXPN), Ghanaian Internet Exchange (GIX),
London Internet Exchange (LINX) and
Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMSIX).
The company’s network will deliver
affordable and scalable broadband
services, together with secured and reliable
solutions, providing support services for
service providers in Cote d’Ivoire. This will
offer optimised Internet connectivity for
business, as well as providing point-to-point
International Private Leased Circuit (IPLC)
communication services for businesses and
Speaking on the impact of MainOne’s
services in Cote d’Ivoire, Kazeem Oladepo,
Regional Executive, MainOne, said:
“We remain committed to providing
infrastructure and connectivity services
that support the digitisation journey and
economic development of the region. Our
investment will see MainOne contributing to
the growth of the local economy by serving
enterprises and telecommunication providers
with world-class connectivity solutions and
data centre expertise.”
The MainOne system traverses the coast of
West Africa with fully operational landing
stations from Seixal in Portugal through to
Accra in Ghana and Lagos in Nigeria, with
the addition of new branches in Dakar,
Senegal and Grand Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire.
Additional branching units in Morocco and
Tenerife are yet to be connected. n
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