FOR a better Internet experience in Nigeria, Internet Solutions (IS), the region’s connectivity provider, has connected the country to the West Africa Cable System (WACS). The Nigerian based company also plans to light up capacity in Ghana soon.
“Nigeria is a very important market for us and in our African expansion plans, hooking up this country, with a huge population of over 160 million people, to the WACS having acquired significant capacity on the 5.12Tbps undersea fibre optic cable confirms our commitment to the region,” Chief Executive Officer of Internet Solutions, Nigeria, Olusola Teniola stated.
According to him, connecting Nigeria to the WACS undersea cable was in line with the company’s continent-wide focus as a number of its clients in the region as well as in other parts of Africa are also expanding internationally or have established operations in these regions. Hence, they require the capabilities to connect with these key economic hubs in West Africa.
“And with the new policy thrust of the Nigerian government focusing on broadband, there is bound to be a growing need to provide high speed outbound international broadband connectivity to the rapidly growing enterprise and small-to-medium-sized business market in the regions.
“We have, therefore, strategically positioned ourselves to help the country and their region in the broadband plans,” Teniola added.
According to him, these links now offer IS clients greater diversity up the West Coast of Africa as it complements existing SAT-3 capacity.
“With the launch of this connectivity in Nigeria, IS has become one of the first providers to go to market with WACS capacity. This means that our current MPLS clients will benefit from a more stable and resilient international network, with redundancy up the west coast, at no additional cost. In fact, we are now in a position to offer better rates on various international services due to the added capacity,” Teniola explained.
It also opens up the market to companies in these regions that want access to the IS data centre network particularly in Nigeria, giving them an opportunity to have their data hosted as close to their operations as possible, he further stated.
“This enables us to offer companies a variety of services and applications that were not always practical in the past due to bandwidth constraints such as IP-based communication, including VoIP and video conferencing, as well as content sharing, collaboration tools, e-commerce and centralised cloud computing services.”
Having connected Nigeria to the WACS, Teniola said that the company planned to hook up Ghana, another strategic country in the sub-region, to the undersea cable soon.
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