Africa
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The London Internet Exchange (LINX) is continuing to expand in Africa, launching a new Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in Ghana. -
The London Internet Exchange (LINX) unveiled plans to expand its service in Kenya with the launch of LINX Mombasa to extend its growing network on the continent.
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The mobile industry’s contribution to Sub-Saharan Africa's GDP is projected to reach $170 billion by 2030, provided that challenges such as connectivity gaps and energy costs are resolved, according to a new GSMA report.
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Angola Cables has launched a European subsidiary, TelCables Europe, to bring its digital solutions to customers across Europe and the Mediterranean.
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Sofibanque, one of the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) biggest banks, is leveraging co-location services at the OADC Kinshasa data centre site.
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RETN has issued a stark warning that the impact of the February 2024 cable cuts in the Red Sea, which were originally reported to have affected 25% of Europe-Asia data traffic, was severely underestimated.
Forthcoming events
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Yotta Infrastructure has unveiled plans for a US$150 million, 240Mw data centre park in Kolkata, West Bengal.
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Season 2, episode 8 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray and senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman.
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Nine of the largest global IPX carriers have joined a global initiative to improve the handling of critical IoT traffic, coordinated by the ITW Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF).
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The Raxio Group is establishing and investing in a series of state-of-the-art, privately owned, carrier neutral, data centres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), starting with a 1.5MW facility in Kinshasa.
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WIOCC has appointed Mwesu Vunda has as its country sales manager for Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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Cairo, 3 March 2021: Telecom Egypt, Egypt’s first integrated telecom operator and one of the largest subsea cable operators in the region, announces its plans to launch Hybrid African Ring Path (HARP) by 2023, a new subsea system that will outline the African continent, forming the shape of a harp.
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NetActuate has completed an expansion and connectivity upgrade in their Johannesburg data centre.
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Cataworx, a provider of business-to-business sales automation software, and Nokia have developed an integrated solution, which enables communication service providers to provide instant quotes for optical network connectivity services, with support for dynamic pricing, and empowering their customers to trigger service fulfilment through order orchestration.
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We live in a world of borderless computing on the far edge, the near edge, in the cloud, and in the data center. A traditional hub-and-spoke wide area network (WAN) architecture, with all the compute happening in the data center simply can’t accommodate this anywhere, anytime, any device reality. This is where Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) enters the picture.
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The Central Bank of Somalia has issued first ever mobile money licence to Hormuud Telecommunication, which operates EVC Plus.
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IFC, part of the World Bank Group, is to loan US$3 million to the Kyrgyz Republic's largest private wholesale broadband operator, its first investment in the country.
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Data Economy shares five news stories making headlines from around the world.
