Friday, October 04,2019 /01:09PM /by Appsafrica/ Header Image Credit:  Appsafrica

MainOnehas landed its submarine cable in Grand Bassam, Cote D'Iviore, which is thefinal leg of the ongoing expansion to reach Senegal and Cote D'Ivoire. 

TheGrand Bassam landing which follows the recent completion of the landing inDakar Senegal will extend the reach of the cable into Cote D'Ivoire andneighboring countries. The deployment is also notable because it is the firstcommercial cable in service to deploy spectrum sharing capabilities guaranteedto deepen infrastructure sharing and lower the cost of delivering broadbandservices to West Africa. 

Followingthe landing at the Grand Bassam beach in Abidjan, the cable will be connectedto an existing branching unit on the MainOne cable trunk already strategicallylocated offshore. The upgrade of the electronics on the cable and theimplementation of spectrum sharing functionality will now enable multipleoperators share optical spectrum on the submarine pair with up to 10 Terabitsof capacity. The availability of such increments in capacity is expected tofurther accelerate the deployment of 4G services in addition to fixed broadbandacross the region. 

Thesubmarine cable will also be connected to the newly constructed MainOne datacentre in Abidjan, purposely built alongside the cable landing station to houseinfrastructure to facilitate the growth of the digital economy in CoteD'Ivoire. The facility built to Tier III standards will address the needs ofInternet Service Providers (ISPs), Telecom Operators and Mobile NetworkOperators (MNOs), Global Content providers and Enterprises in Cote D'Ivoireseeking world class infrastructure at competitive costs for locally residentdata. The highly efficient and reliable facility will offer rack spaces forthese businesses to collocate their IT infrastructure including servers andother equipment with ease while gaining access to fully redundant power,cooling, carrier-grade security, and fire – prevention. The carrier-neutralfacility will also bring direct access to the MainOne Cable system as well asinterconnection with major network operators in Cote D'Ivoire. 

Speakingon the development, MainOne CEO, Funke Opeke stated "We recognise the role thatbroadband infrastructure plays in driving the growth of the digital economy andeconomic development in the 21st Century and are excited that we can enablethese investments in Cote D'Ivoire. We look forward to energizing the digitalecosystem, not just in Cote D'Ivoire, but also in neighbouring countries as webring the new submarine cable connection and Grand Bassam data centre intoservice."

MainOne'ssubmarine cable was the first private subsea cable to deliver open-access,broadband capacity to West Africa in 2010, heralding the explosion in Internetaccess witnessed in the region. The MainOne system traverses the coast of WestAfrica with fully operational landing stations from Seixal in Portugal throughAccra in Ghana to Lagos in Nigeria, the addition of new branches in Dakar,Senegal and Grand Bassam, Cote D'Ivoire and additional branching units in Moroccoand Tenerife yet to be connected.

Credit: The post MainOneLands Submarine Cable in Cote D'Ivoire first appeared in Appsafrica on October 03, 2019

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