An Open Access Date Centres Company, WIOCC, has stated it is leading the continent’s response to the cable cuts currently affecting the WACS, ACE, Main One, and SAT3 subsea systems on Africa’s western seaboard.
WIOCC’s highly resilient network, with hyper-scale capacity on every major system, is the largest in Africa and ideally placed to swiftly deliver restoration solutions to hyper scalers, fixed and mobile carriers, internet service providers, and other clients, enabling them to quickly re-establish key traffic routes into, within, and out of Africa, thereby minimising performance degradation for their end-customers.
Speaking on this development, The group’s CEO, Chris Wood, said the company’s engineering, operations and field teams swung into action Immediately, the four subsea cables were severed off the coast of Cote d‘Ivoire.
According to him, they have been working tirelessly for the last 48 hours with its strategic network partners and equipment suppliers and will, within the next 24 hours, have activated an unprecedented additional 2 terabits per second (Tbps) of capacity across the unaffected cables in its network to support the capacity needs of other network operators and hyperscalers.
He explained that their clients connected directly to Open Access Data Centres (OADC) data centres in South Africa and Nigeria are already protected from the impact of the subsea outages due to the unique levels of redundancy and scale of the WIOCC core backbone.
Wood further explained that in Lagos, the Equiano cable, for which WIOCC owns a fibre pair, has not been affected by the incident off Cote d‘Ivoire.
WIOCC lands the cable directly into the OADC data centre, establishing the most resilient digital ecosystem hub in Lagos and offering the most direct connectivity to Europe and South Africa.
Chris stated that, as a result, OADC’s data centres and WIOCC’s hyperscale network are playing a key role in restoring services to other facilities and operators currently suffering outages in Lagos and elsewhere on the continent.”
“Immediately after the four subsea cables were severed off the coast of Cote d’Ivoire, our engineering, operations, and field teams swung into action.
“They have been working tirelessly for the last 48 hours with our strategic network partners and equipment suppliers and will, within the next 24 hours, have activated an unprecedented additional 2 terabits per second (Tbps) of capacity across the unaffected cables in our network to support the capacity needs of other network operators and hyperscalers.
“Our clients connected directly to Open Access Data Centres (OADC) data centres in South Africa and Nigeria are already protected from the impact of the subsea outages due to the unique levels of redundancy and scale of the WIOCC core backbone.
“In Lagos, the Equiano cable, for which WIOCC owns a fibre pair, has not been affected by the incident off Cote d‘Ivoire.
“WIOCC lands the cable directly into the OADC data centre, establishing the most resilient digital ecosystem hub in Lagos and offering the most direct connectivity to Europe and South Africa.
“As a result, OADC’s data centres and WIOCC’s hyperscale network are playing a key role in restoring services to other facilities and operators currently suffering outages in Lagos and elsewhere on the continent.”
“Our priority is to ensure minimal disruption and maximum resilience for our clients,” added Ryan Sher, Group Chief Operating Officer at WIOCC.”
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