{"id":175777,"date":"2017-05-18T12:52:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T10:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=175777"},"modified":"2017-05-18T12:52:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T10:52:24","slug":"seacom-reveals-further-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/175777\/seacom-reveals-further-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Seacom reveals further expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seacom, a provider of <span class=\"st\">terrestrial high-speed fibre-optic cable, <\/span>has launched new points of presence in Rwanda and Botswana, through partnerships with local providers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRwanda and Botswana have both historically relied on costly international connectivity via satellite or transit from their neighbouring countries,\u201d Seacom said in a press release on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat changed with the launch of the Seacom submarine cable\u00a0and the subsequent development of national fibre backbones that connect to Seacom\u2019s infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRwanda now has multiple routes to a number of submarine cables,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Seacom\u2019s new point of presence in Rwanda was launched in partnership with Rwandan ISP Broadband Systems Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Its point of presence in Botswana was\u00a0launched in partnership with Botswanan ISP Abari Communications, and\u00a0Botswana will now have access to the same Seacom Service Provider product set as Johannesburg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company said early this week that its now has more than 1,000 new enterprise customers across Kenya and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>It said that it is driving much of this growth through channel partners across Africa and is delivering more than 100 new services each month.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/145143\/seacom-targets-acquisitions-as-it-eyes-fibre-to-the-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seacom targets acquisitions as it eyes fibre-to-the business<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seacom has launched new points of presence in Rwanda and Botswana, through partnerships with local providers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":110481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,39],"class_list":["post-175777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-seacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175777","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175789,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175777\/revisions\/175789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}