Liquid Dataport, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, today announced it has launched the first terrestrial fibre connecting Mombasa to Johannesburg. This new route, including a breakthrough and unique fibre link across DRC between Goma and Kananga, provides multiple landlocked countries with extra redundancy, resilience, connectivity to numerous data centres and cloud resources, and, most significantly, an alternative option in the event of a subsea cable outage between Kenya and South Africa.

“Cassava Technologies is committed to making digital inclusion a reality on the African continent. This milestone achieved by Liquid Dataport reiterates our commitment to a digitally connected future that leaves no African behind through our continuous investments towards improving and expanding our digital infrastructure. This route will not only bring increased access to high-speed connectivity, but will also improve lives and allow businesses to create and sustain millions of jobs,” says Hardy Pemhiwa, President and Group CEO of Cassava Technologies.

The exponential demand for connectivity directly results from the increasing adoption of digital technologies by enterprises across the continent. Consequently, there is an urgent need for service providers and international carriers like Liquid Dataport to cater to this growing demand seamlessly. This route that will connect South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and the DRC is yet another testament to Liquid Dataport’s commitment to improving access to digital services for everyone in Africa dramatically.

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Commenting on the launch of this new route, David Eurin, CEO of Liquid Dataport, said, “This is the first terrestrial-only cable connecting Mombasa to Johannesburg via DRC. It is the result of our significant fibre infrastructure investments in several countries, including Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, DRC, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. With this new route, we are able to provide our existing and future customers access to an intelligent network with increased resilience and low latency. It not only provides redundancy but was designed to provide additional capacity to the landlocked countries on the route with direct access to cloud resources on the African continent and beyond”.

This route offers hyperscalers, enterprises and wholesale carriers direct connectivity to data centres in Johannesburg and Nairobi. Investments on the Equiano sea cable and significant capacity on the PEACE and 2Africa undersea fibre cables together with its extensive terrestrial cross-border fibre brodband network ensures that Liquid’s customers benefit from low-cost international capacity landing on both the Kenyan and South African shores wherever they need it on the Continent.

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Leading African tech company, Liquid Dataport has entered into a partnership agreement with ICOSNET in Algeria as  part of Liquid’s ongoing One Broadband Africa partner programme to make connectivity and world-class products and services more widely available in Africa.

A business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, Liquid Dataport’s partnership with ICOSNET, the only private ISP provider in Algeria, in a move that enables customers to access digital communication services offered by Liquid Dataport in Algeria. ICOSNET, which currently offers customers internet access services, unified communications services, cyber security, and cloud solutions, will now have access to Liquid’s world-class pan-African network for their clients’ connectivity needs.

“This partnership will enhance Liquid’s offering as we will be able to offer a one-stop-shop for customers to buy services in Algeria,” says David Eurin, CEO of Liquid Dataport. “ICOSNET is a strategic company to partner with in this endeavour, given its excellent track record of customer service and delivery.

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Liquid Dataport will offer our suite of digital solutions for public and private sector clients to all service providers working with ICOSNET. These include providing them access to Liquid’s extensive fibre network on the continent and other digital services – as well as the ability to connect back to Europe”.

“This strategic partnership enables Icosnet, an African company firmly focused on the continent and operating in the demanding Algerian market, to share its 24 years of expertise in the telecommunications field with its neighbors, by providing them with its infrastructure and know-how, as well as to extend the footprint of services offered to its major international telco partners. This accessibility, made possible by connectivity with Europe, and access to the liquid network, opens up new perspectives for positioning Icosnet as the main international Telecommunications Hub in the region,” says Mr. Ali Morsli, CEO of the company.

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The partnership with ICOSNET in Algeria is part of Liquid’s ongoing One Broadband Africa partner programme to make connectivity and world-class products and services more widely available in Africa, to help boost economic growth and productivity for businesses across the continent.

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Liquid Dataport, a subsidiary of Cassava Technologies (formerly Liquid Telecom Group), has acquired a pair of fibre cables on Equiano, the new, Google-owned subsea cable connecting South Africa and Europe along Africa’s west coast.

It said the cables give Liquid access to bandwidth of 12Tbit/s on the new Internet cable, which will be ready for commercial service by the end of the year. 

“The additional capacity augments Liquid Dataport’s existing pan-African fibre network, global satellite connectivity and subsea cable backbone,” the company said, adding that it expects the cable will lead to a reduction in Internet prices and an improvement of quality of Internet connections in South Africa and other markets in sub-Saharan Africa.

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The Equiano subsea cable has landing stations in Sesimbra (Portugal), Lomé (Togo), Lagos (Nigeria), Swakopmund (Namibia), St Helena island and Melkbosstrand (South Africa).

The Equiano cable system will be available in all Africa Data Centres’ facilities and give Liquid Dataport’s customers access to vast amounts of capacity at a reduced price, the company added. (Africa Data Centres is also a subsidiary of Cassava Technologies.)

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 “Liquid Dataport plans to interconnect the Equiano landing stations to its East-West network across Africa, further strengthening its global IP route between Asia, Africa and the US, it said.

Kelechi Deca

Kelechi Deca has over two decades of media experience, he has traveled to over 77 countries reporting on multilateral development institutions, international business, trade, travels, culture, and diplomacy. He is also a petrol head with in-depth knowledge of automobiles and the auto industry