Nokia and Proximus turned on the world’s fastest fiber access network at a media event in Antwerp attended by the Belgian Minister of Telecommunications, the Mayor of Antwerp and executives and engineers from the two companies.
As 5G rollouts continue, investment in fiber optic deployment continues to be a priority as the foundation for 5G wireless networks. However, the FTTH Council Europe and IDATE’s latest FTTH market panorama study over the 12 months until September 2020 has noted that almost 60% of homes in the EU27+UK region are yet to be passed with fiber infrastructure.
MTN announced the completion of its part in the long-awaited coastal national long-distance (NLD) cable project, known as NLD 5 and NLD 6. The impressive 1,822 km fiber route coverage starts in Cape Town, runs along the N2, and leads up to Durban.
Leading international communications enabler BICS announces it is introducing voice APIs to its portfolio of programmable communications solutions, enabling enterprises to significantly improve their customer experience. This new feature allows companies to easily customize communications services to suit their individual requirements, giving them greater flexibility to scale and optimize their business.
Kamil Hilali, the company’s Chief Strategy Officer and the newly appointed CEO of Zain Global Services (Wholesale), announced a significant restructuring and new strategy of Zain Group’s wholesale division, an essential part of Zain’s ‘4Sight’ strategy.
Nokia’s broad portfolio of optical networking hardware, software and professional services will be used by Swisscom to transform the operator’s existing infrastructure to a fully automated and high capacity optical transport network.
Nigerian telecoms firm and leading data center provider MainOne has announced plans to expand its data center footprint across West Africa, intending to double its storage capacity through its MDXi data center subsidiary.
Moro Hub, a subsidiary of Digital DEWA, has signed an agreement with Huawei to build the largest solar-powered data center in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park.
Etisalat has added a third facility in its SmartHub data centers portfolio with the opening of state-of-art Tier 3 data centre facility in Kalba, which has been selected to be the landing for Africa-1, a new subsea telecom system connecting Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
Canada 15Edge Data Centers Inc. (“C15Edge”), a provider of colocation data center solutions, announces that it has combined with Whipcord Ltd., an Alberta based cloud and colocation provider, to form Whipcord Edge Data Centers Inc. (“Whipcord Edge”). The transaction will allow Whipcord Edge to support the continued growth of its customers in both Eastern and Western Canada. Together, the company’s Toronto and Alberta based locations will allow Whipcord Edge to provide cross-Canada solutions for its clients to protect their mission critical data and information technology infrastructure.
