INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
SACS Cable to boost connectivity
in Africa via Teraco Data Centres
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Teraco Managing Director Jan Hnizdo
T
eraco, Africa’s largest vendor neutral
colocation data centre provider, has
said that clients currently making
use of its data centres in Cape Town and
Johannesburg are set to benefit from the
cross connection to the South Atlantic Cable
System (SACS) – Africa’s first transatlantic link
connecting the continent to the Americas.
Owned by Angola Cables, the new subsea
network provides the most direct routing
for internet traffic across the Atlantic and
according to Teraco, will bring immense
opportunity for clients within the data centre.
“This is an exciting development and
includes much needed investment into
local infrastructure,” said Teraco Managing
Director Jan Hnizdo.
60%, SACS reduces latency from Fortaleza
(Brazil) to Luanda (Angola) from 350ms to
63ms; Luanda is connected with the same
latency to London and to Miami of around
128 milliseconds; and the link from Miami
to Cape Town has been reduced to 163ms –
from 338ms in the past prior to SACS.
Angola Cables CEO Antonio Nunes said that
latency is a global issue, especially in the era
of software driven services.
“SACS has the capabilities to dramatically
improve this – and at the same time Angola
Cables is bringing new routes to Africa with a
lot of available capacity,” he said.
“Built with a direct purpose to boost business
in South Africa, SACS will provide improved
connectivity and significantly lower latency
routing between Africa and the Americas.” The Angola Cables submarine network is
already providing Teraco’s data centres in
South Africa with direct connectivity to Brazil,
Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, but also to
Miami giving Teraco’s DC clients a premium
opportunity to connect and share digital
content with the America continent.
Offering five times the speed of existing
cable routings and an improvement of up to “The SACS southern hemisphere, ultra-
low latency routings presents a massive
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opportunity for Teraco’s direct clients’ to
access fast and reliable cross connections
between Africa and the Americas,” said Nunes.
Hnizdo added that SACS will be a great
contributor to increased economic growth
as this new system compliments the
European route.
“Having a southern-based cabling system is
also good as a contingency plan,” he said.
“SACS provides not only an alternative, but a
cost effective option to access regions that
were previously difficult to reach.
“As Teraco grows its market presence across
carrier, content, cloud and enterprise sectors,
our clients will benefit from the latency and
diversity offered by the subsea cable systems
now available.
“Access to the Americas has never
been easier and we look forward to an
increase in transatlantic traffic fully utilising
the SACS cable system that is built on
100Gig technology.” n
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