SEACOM
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SEACOM launched Africa’s first broadband submarine cable system along the eastern and southern coastlines in 2009, bringing with it a vast supply of high quality and affordable Internet bandwidth. Since then, SEACOM has moved beyond being a cable operator to become a major pan-African service provider, offering a full suite of resilient and scalable data services that allow Africa’s growing ICT community to develop and evolve. Today, SEACOM is the preferred partner for African businesses, network carriers and service providers. The SEACOM Business division leverages this infrastructure and last-mile partnerships to provide the African business market with best-in-class connectivity and cloud services at highly competitive prices. SEACOM is privately owned and operated, allowing the company the agility to rapidly deploy new services, commercial structures and infrastructure in response to customer requirements. SEACOM is also able to provide true open-access services with no red tape or hidden costs. SEACOM is moving into this segment to provide corporate organisations in East Africa with reliable data connectivity, cloud services and consistent service quality by leveraging SEACOM’s existing high-speed fibre based network infrastructure. It has also recently appointed several corporate partners to support its drive into the SME market, and expects to speed up its total corporate customer acquisitions going forward. SEACOM Business Sales Lead Patrick Ndegwa said that the company aims to provide corporate customers high-speed connectivity and quality bandwidth at an affordable cost, on a selective basis in the corporate data connectivity space. The company is leveraging its abundant and scalable capacity on its undersea cable system and continent-wide IP-MPLS network, as well as the capabilities of its Cloud services, to enable corporates in South Africa and East Africa to smoothly transition to the Cloud. SEACOM launched the first broadband submarine cable system along the East African coastline in 2009 linking South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique with major Internet connection hubs in Europe and Asia. Today, it offers a redundant connectivity ring around Africa’s east and west coasts, optimal traffic routing, and resiliency through multiple tier-1 upstream partners in Europe and Asia. It also offers direct connectivity to African routes and content. It delivers these services over last-mile access through leading connectivity partnerships in various regions. Initially, the company aimed to bring standard fibre to corporate customers in Kenya and South Africa. Private Line Services give clients secure, dedicated, low-latency transmission connectivity across multiple cable systems connecting Africa, Europe and Asia, as well as regionally to key interconnection points in Africa. Cloud offers African businesses a fast-track to modern IT infrastructure.