By Irene Gaitirira
Published May 17, 2023
Liquid Dataport technology company has launched the first terrestrial fibre connecting Kenya’s Mombasa port city to South Africa’s commercial capital, Johannesburg.
Cassava Technologies that own Liquid Dataport say the new route provides multiple land locked countries with extra redundancy, resilience, connectivity to numerous data centres and cloud resources and an alternative option in the event of a subsea cable outage between Kenya and South Africa.
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“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,” says Hardy Pemhiwa, President and Group CEO of Cassava Technologies. “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.”
The Mombasa – Johannesburg route connects South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Congo-Kinshasa.
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“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,” says David Eurin, CEO of Liquid Dataport.
This route offers hyperscalers, enterprises and wholesale carriers direct connectivity to data centres in Johannesburg and Kenya’s capital, 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.
