{"id":109817,"date":"2016-01-22T15:09:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T13:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=109817"},"modified":"2016-01-22T15:09:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T13:09:25","slug":"seacom-upgrades-network-to-turbo-boost-african-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/109817\/seacom-upgrades-network-to-turbo-boost-african-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"SEACOM upgrades network to turbo-boost African connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seacom.mu\/\">SEACOM<\/a>\u00a0is expanding its terrestrial network and upgrading capacity with Ciena\u00a0to provide reliable and resilient connectivity into and out of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>With Ciena\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciena.com\/products\/6500\/\">6500 Packet-Optical Platform<\/a>\u00a0underpinning its high-capacity backbone, SEACOM will cost-effectively expand, optimise and seamlessly link its submarine and terrestrial networks without disrupting existing services.<\/p>\n<p>By adopting Ciena\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciena.com\/technology\/\">OP<sup>n<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0approach SEACOM\u2019s network is also scalable and able to adapt to accommodate future architectural possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>These extended services allow SEACOM to continue delivering affordable data connectivity to the African continent.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Driving web-scale services across Africa<\/h3>\n<p>Together, SEACOM and Ciena are supporting scalable connectivity to expand the African Internet, facilitating data services for broadband, and enabling access to cloud-based web-scale applications.<\/p>\n<p>Ciena\u2019s unified management capability gives SEACOM an end-to-end view of its entire infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>This enables faster service turn-up and complete visibility of network performance, as well as fault management and remote troubleshooting.<\/p>\n<p>Ciena\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciena.com\/solutions\/submarine-network-operators\/geomesh\/\">GeoMesh<\/a>\u00a0submarine solution and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciena.com\/products\/converged-packet-optical\/\">converged packet optical platform\u00a0<\/a>equip SEACOM with a high-capacity backbone.<\/p>\n<p>This brings high-performing flexible services and content closer to its enterprise and service provider customers across SEACOM\u2019s 17,000 km submarine and terrestrial networks.<\/p>\n<p>This will deliver new network solutions to service providers across the continent and into main European points of presence (POPs).<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Benefit to customers in Africa<\/h3>\n<p>This expansion gives SEACOM\u2019s corporate and service provider customers the ability to expand and grow their operations to support the rise of cloud-based services and applications.<\/p>\n<p>It also enables customers to facilitate growing requirements for the processing and storage of data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrica is experiencing massive growth and demand for network services,\u201d said Claes Segelberg, Chief Technology Officer at SEACOM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Ciena\u2019s technology supporting our infrastructure evolution we can ensure cost-effective data connectivity to end-customers across the continent and internationally; ensuring that Africa is ready for the next generation of applications and high-bandwidth broadband services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SEACOM\u2019s infrastructure is designed to grow and scale as Africa continues to develop.<\/p>\n<p>Investments in infrastructure will ultimately improve overall Internet access and enable more digital, and associated economic, opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor competitive providers like SEACOM increasing network capacity efficiently and economically is critical,\u201d said Ed McCormack, VP and General Manager, Submarine Systems at Ciena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this expansion and upgrade SEACOM can continue to its great work and help lead Africa into the next stage of ICT growth with scalable and competitive connectivity solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEACOM is expanding its terrestrial network and upgrading capacity with Ciena to provide reliable and resilient connectivity into and out of Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":109821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[1174,26,39],"class_list":["post-109817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-africa","tag-headline","tag-seacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109823,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109817\/revisions\/109823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}