SEACOM to provide direct connectivity for Kenyan firms to South Africa
SEACOM is to offer direct connections from its East Africa network to public cloud networks and data centres in South Africa

SEACOM to provide direct connectivity for Kenyan firms to South Africa

Leading Pan-African Internet and connectivity service provider, SEACOM has announced that it will now offer direct connections from its East Africa network to public cloud networks and data centres in South Africa.

 

This follows the launch of Microsoft’s enterprise-grade data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

 

SEACOM’s offering, available to business customers, will deliver direct, high-speed, dedicated and secure connectivity to the Microsoft data centres via resilient network connections from Kenya to South Africa. The SEACOM subsea cable, which connects Kenya to South Africa, offers a fibre express route that carries Terabytes of capacity with speeds from as low as 50 Mbps up to 10 Gbps. In addition to this, SEACOM’s recent acquisition of FibreCo’s network allows it to extend this capability across South Africa and into the major data centres where cloud providers, such as Microsoft, have a presence.

 

Ten years ago, SEACOM first brought its high-speed Internet connectivity directly to Africa, opening the continent to technological advancements we enjoy today.

 

Through years of experience with global cloud providers such as Microsoft, SEACOM has provided solutions to businesses that are considering cloud migration. One such example is the launch of the Azure ExpressRoute offering together with Microsoft, that allows SEACOM customers to extend their on-premises networks into the cloud without going over the public Internet. Until now, this solution had been limited to data centres outside of the African continent.

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