Liquid Telecom has launched the fastest direct terrestrial fiber link connecting East and West African countries. This breakthrough coast-to-coast digital corridor follows the completion of Liquid Telecom’s new high-capacity fiber link running 2,600-kilometre (km) across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Africa was in need of a direct east to west telecommunications backbone. Liquid Telecom has achieved what African states…

Orange has unveiled plans to build a new international backbone network to connect many West African countries at the AfricaCom international congress currently taking place in Cape Town. As per the plan, Orange’s new infrastructure will be built around a terrestrial fiber optic network coupled with submarine cables and will benefit from centralized supervision. This multi-regional West African network will…

Nigerian service provider Spectranet selects Nokia GPON Solutions to provide broadband speeds of more than 100 Mbps over fiber to the home and business networks in Nigeria. Spectranet’s customers in Lagos and Abuja will be able to enjoy new ultra-broadband services that demand greater speed and higher bandwidth Nokia GPON solution helps Spectranet better serve its customers by adding FTTH…

GTD has selected Infinera’s Optical Transport Solutions for its nationwide network in Chile. The enhanced network will deliver resilient, secure, and high-capacity communications services to meet the needs of the wholesale, enterprise, and residential customers of GTD. The announcement came from Infinera through a press release that the GTD, a Chilean multi-service telecommunications provider in South America, has deployed Infinera…