NEWS
African ERP company
One Channel wins
international award
Angola Cables
announces
major US
partnership
project
A
ngola Cables, the Angola-based
multinational telecoms company, has
announced a major partnership project in
the US.
The company, which is also building the first
subsea cable in the Southern Hemisphere
directly connecting Brazil to Africa, has
announced that US-based FiberLight LLC
will provide backhaul connectivity in the US,
starting with the Miami and Florida region.
O
ne Channel, a leading African
cloud ERP solutions provider, and
Acumatica partner, has won Acumatica’s
International Partner of the Year award at
the annual partner Summit in Nashville.
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This partnership will enable the delivery of
Monet derived services to a wider range of
clients and markets. The recently completed
10,556-km Monet cable linking Florida to
Brazil is capable of delivering a minimum of
64 Tbps of capacity, providing a low-latency
route to users in the U.S. and Latin America.
company achievements, including 4,000
customers and 144% new revenue growth
for 2017, which represents more than a
doubling of revenue year-over-year.
Acumatica is the world’s fastest-growing
cloud ERP company. It announced the
2018 Partner Award winners during its
Acumatica Summit 2018. One Channel
CEO Bernard Ford said: “We feel honoured
to be part of such a phenomenal
community. What makes it even more
special is because we’re celebrating
Acumatica’s 10 year anniversary.” Ford says the strength of Acumatica
comes from the strong community of
partners, customers, and advocates who
evangelise about the benefits of cloud
ERP software.
“One of our core beliefs is that customers
have a right to an open and flexible
platform with a consumption-based
licensing approach to scale as your
business grows,” he said.
During the opening keynote speech of
Acumatica Summit 2018 to more than
1,000 customers and partners, CEO Jon
Roskill announced a number of significant “With Acumatica you can have the cloud
on your terms too, with public, private
and hybrid deployment flexibility and
access to your data, anytime, anywhere.”
INTELLIGENTCIO
Angola Cables operates two fibre optic
pairs within the Monet cable system, one
transmitting data from Fortaleza, Brazil to US
shores and the other carrying traffic to Sao
Paulo, Brazil.
According to António Nunes, CEO of Angola
Cables, the appointment of FiberLight
offers extended advantages to local and
international connectivity operators.
“FiberLight is a widely-respected fibre-
optic based entity focused on supplying
high performance connectivity services to
multiple locations,” said Nunes. “The link-up
with FiberLight will allow Angola Cables
to deliver reliable, high graded services
beyond the Monet cable termination point
of MI3 Equinix and the data centre in Boca
Raton at Equinix’s MI1 colocation facility in
Miami, Florida.”
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