adminThe network features the longest uninterrupted fiber spans on the African continent.
Liquid’s new optical network spans more than 2 500 kilometres and was built to accommodate the growing demand for bandwidth in the region as well as the need for an ultra-long-haul transmission network.
This expansion of Liquid Telecom’s Pan-African network will help bring the Internet to areas starving for reliable, high-speed access. The new network carries multiple 10Gbit/s wavelengths and can scale to support many more 10GBit/s and 100Gbit/s services.
The Liquid Telecom Group, which is a subsidiary of the Econet Wireless Group, has built Africa’s largest fiber network, which runs from the north of Uganda to Cape Town.
In total, its award-winning Pan-African fiber network spans more than 13 000 km across Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, and South Africa.
Liquid Telecom’s fiber network is the first to cross country borders and covers Africa’s fastest-growing economies, where no fixed fiber network has ever existed before.
Liquid Telecom and Ekinops have since been awarded at this year’s Global Telecoms Business Innovation awards the “Best Fixed Network Innovation” for their joint work in this project for building Africa’s longest single span fiber links.
They have successfully deployed spans that cover more than 310 km without inline amplifiers. Typical long-haul optical networks require an amplifier site every 100 km in order to amplify the signal.
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