{"id":135603,"date":"2016-09-06T06:56:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T04:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=135603"},"modified":"2016-09-06T06:56:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T04:56:49","slug":"new-seacom-point-of-presence-brings-africa-closer-to-londons-financial-heartland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/135603\/new-seacom-point-of-presence-brings-africa-closer-to-londons-financial-heartland\/","title":{"rendered":"New SEACOM point of presence brings Africa closer to London\u2019s financial heartland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pan-African telecom operator, <a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.mybroadband.co.za\/\/track.php?page=aHR0cDovL3NlYWNvbS5tdS8?source=Article 10 of 12\" target=\"_blank\">SEACOM<\/a>, has further strengthened its international IP\/MPLS network by going live with a point of presence (PoP) in Slough.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Slough, just 33km west of London, contains some of the UK\u2019s most and largest co-location data centres serving the city\u2019s financial services sector and other key commercial clients.<\/p>\n<p>The area is also a key hub for transit of traffic between London and major global financial centres such as New York.<\/p>\n<p>The new PoP is significant for African financial services institutions that trade in equities.<\/p>\n<p>It will give them a direct route to one of the UK\u2019s most important financial interconnection points, delivering better performance and lower latency.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.mybroadband.co.za\/\/track.php?page=aHR0cDovL3NlYWNvbS5tdS8?source=Article 10 of 12\" target=\"_blank\">SEACOM\u2019s IP Transit network<\/a> now offers African service providers and network operators direct connectivity to a range of Tier-1 partner networks in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Because it controls the infrastructure &#8211; from its global and African IP Transit networks to remote peering points in Europe &#8211; it can guarantee high levels of quality and support to its customers.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Says Mark Tinka, Head of Engineering at SEACOM: \u201cWe are pleased to offer our network operator and commercial clients this direct route to one of the world\u2019s most important Internet financial districts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinancial services institutions in Africa need fast, reliable connectivity with the world\u2019s financial centres, which is one reason we have invested in this new PoP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, this latest investment consolidates our position as Africa\u2019s leading data network service provider, able to offer a resilient, high-quality network platform that spans the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the only African network to have our own PoPs in Europe\u2019s five busiest centres for Internet traffic \u2013 Stockholm, Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt and Marseille.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSEACOM will keep investing in providing a better experience for Africa\u2019s growing population of broadband users.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEACOM\u2019s new PoP in Slough brings reliable connectivity to financial services institutions in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":135613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[26,39],"class_list":["post-135603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-headline","tag-seacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135603","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=135603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135615,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135603\/revisions\/135615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}