COUNTRY FOCUS : MAURITIUS
Mauritius is investing in high speed connectivity and IT infrastructure and training of its public sector employees in digital platforms and remains an attractive destination for high value connectivity and collaboration services .
Attractive destination for ISP , outsourcing companies
Aerial view of Port Louis , capital of Mauritius
Mauritius has a vision to transform the island into a digital economy by encouraging the ITbusiness processes sector making Mauritius a premium location for IT and business outsourcing services . With a favourable business climate , time zone , government incentives for the IT-BPS sector , and a strong pool of highly skilled talent , Mauritius is a preferred location for doing business with ease .
Based on its geographical position , Mauritius is an important landing point for undersea cable connectivity . Recently Liquid Intelligent Technologies , a business of Cassava Technologies , a pan-African technology group , successfully installed the Mauritius Telecom T3 subsea cable connecting Mauritius to South Africa .
This cable has been deployed at Liquid ’ s landing facility in Amanzimtoti , south of Durban . The move will bring a much-needed boost to the stability and redundancy around the connectivity that exists between the two countries .
The T3 cable consists of four fibre pairs , with a design capacity of 13.5 Tbps per fibre pair and 54 Tbps for the whole system . With this , Liquid Intelligent Technologies South Africa is bringing a critical increase in the availability of high-speed and reliable Internet connectivity for economies in the Indian Ocean islands to South Africa , leveraging on Liquid ’ s 110,000km of fibre backbone in Africa .
In addition to bringing reliable Internet connectivity to South Africa , this partnership will also have a positive impact by stimulating economic growth and contributing to the overall development of the community by creating job opportunities .
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