{"id":123409,"date":"2016-05-12T08:30:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T06:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=123409"},"modified":"2016-05-12T08:30:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T06:30:58","slug":"seacom-strengthens-position-as-africas-leading-internet-enabler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/123409\/seacom-strengthens-position-as-africas-leading-internet-enabler\/","title":{"rendered":"SEACOM strengthens position as Africa\u2019s leading Internet enabler"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEACOM<\/strong><\/a> is showing strong growth in the global and African wholesale and retail telecom markets, this according to independent statistics from the Internet performance management company, Dyn.<\/p>\n

Dyn\u2019s data shows that SEACOM is rapidly climbing the IPv4 Internet rankings as it connects more customers across Africa.<\/p>\n

According to Dyn, SEACOM is second in terms of the overall rate of customer growth in Africa\u2019s market and has shown strong growth as a backbone, retail and wholesale provider in both the continent and globally.<\/p>\n

The scores are based on the number of IP addresses an IP network provides transit for, in addition to its own.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seen steady growth in our wholesale market as operators and ISPs across Africa have pushed their data services and increased their use of SEACOM to manage their international upstream requirements,\u201d said Robert Marston, SEACOM\u2019s Global Head of Product.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe expect this trend to continue as our customers replace their transmission links and off-continent transit provider ports with regional transit directly off our backbone.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur recently-launched retail offerings in markets such as South Africa and Kenya are also contributing to the rise of our rankings in the retail segment,\u201d Marston concludes.<\/p>\n

SEACOM is the only African service provider ranked in the top ten wholesale service providers in Africa, with all the other nine service providers being of European or North American origin (see below).<\/p>\n

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It is worth noting that the nine non-African service providers ranked in Africa\u2019s top ten are mostly serving African ISP\u2019s with IP Transit bandwidth out of Europe, while SEACOM connects its ISP customers physically and directly from within Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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