Intelligent Cabling

Cabling market outlook 2020: Insights into developments in public, data centre and LAN

Reichle & De-Massari (R&M), the globally active Swiss developer and provider of cabling systems for high-quality network infrastructures, presents its market outlook for 2020. Nabil Khalil, Executive Vice-President of R&M Middle East, Turkey and Africa, provides us with his insights....

Nokia and Angola Cables trial first direct optical connection between USA and Africa

Angola Cables is trialling Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE-3) chipset for the first direct optical connection between the USA and Africa. The route provides direct, low-latency trans-Atlantic routing and greatly simplifies the turn-up of services to better serve rapidly growing data...

MainOne’s submarine cable is ready for service in Cote d’Ivoire

MainOne 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...

Paratus extends its coverage across Africa

Paratus, a leading telecoms operator with operational offices in six African countries, has now implemented additional routes for redundancy and is in the process of an aggressive rollout plan, building even more routes across the region to ensure maximum uptime for clients using this route. The...