Tag: Seacom
Submarine Cable Corporation SEACOM Acquires Fibre Firm Hirani Telecom
Pan-African telecommunications services provider SEACOM has announced that it has completed the 100% acquisition of Hirani Telecom’s metro fibre network. The network will be...
IPS Cable Systems Seeks to Acquire Another 10% Share in SEACOM
IPS Cable Systems Ltd has made a bid to acquire a further shareholding in Africa’s premier fibre optic undersea cable firm, SEACOM.
The move, which was announced...
Recent Poor Internet Connections in Kenya Linked to Faulty Undersea Cables in West Africa
The past two or three days have been marked by poor internet connections as reported by many people across various social media channels. The...
SEACOM Subsea Cable System to Blame for Zuku’s Outage
Today, Zuku subscribers have been complaining about otage issues on the Internet. They are still the biggest fiber provider in the country and this...
SEACOM Finalizes the Upgrade of Subsea Cable System to 1.5Tbps for High-Speed Backbones
SEACOM has announced that it upgraded its primary submarine network system from the Southern Eastern African coastline landing to Europe. The development has bolstered...
Microsoft Inks Deal with SEACOM to Provide Low-Latency Cloud Connections for Businesses
Microsoft has been involved in a lot of activities in the country as it aims to bolster its internet-based solutions for its clients. We...
SEACOM Readies Corporate Cloud Services Powered by MS Azure and Amazon Web Services
Submarine cable operator SEACOM has revealed that its corporate cloud service will be rolled out to a wider customer base in the near future.
Speaking...
SEACOM Subsea Cable Wraps Up Marine Fault Repair, Appreciable Speed Boosts in Tow
SEACOM has concluded the restoration to working order on Segment 15 of its Subsea Cable System that experienced an outage in April. The repair...
SEACOM’s Subsea Cable is Experiencing an Outage, Hope You’re Ready For Slow Internet
What a way to start the week huh? Less than 12 hours ago, SEACOM announced that they are experiencing a service-affecting outage on Segment...
ShowMax Now Has Caching Servers in Nairobi, Thanks to Seacom
ShowMax has partnered with Seacom, Africa’s foremost network service provider and ICT enabler, to host its caching servers in Nairobi. The caching servers will allow for...
Seacom Targets Acquisitions as Part of Its Enterprise Market Growth Plans
The firm will be out to get Liquid Telecom's cake in this space
SEACOM to Begin Offering Fiber and Cloud Services to Corporates
South African company SEACOM has ventured into the enterprise market with the firm now providing its services to corporate clients. SEACOM provides fiber optic...
90% of African Internet Content Is Hosted Outside Region
Content delivery networks (CDNs) play an integral part in the management of internet bandwidth. And as the internet gains wider acceptance in Africa, providers...
SEACOM Partners with Ciena to Upgrade Under-Sea Cable
SEACOM has selected Ciena Corporation’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform and OneControl Unified Management System for the upgrade of its submarine network across the Southern and...
Seacom South Africa and Infinera trial world’s first 500 Gigabit/second high-speed data network
South Africa-based undersea cable company Seacom and US-based digital optical networking equipment supplier Infinera have achieved a global first by successfully trialling a 500...