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Angola Cables leverages
Interxion’s data centres to
enhance interconnection
between Africa and Europe
A
ngola Cables SA and Interxion, a leading provider
of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre
services in Europe, have announced that Angola Cables
has extended its international network to three Interxion
facilities in Europe: Frankfurt, London and Marseille.
This network expansion is a core part of Angola Cables’
mission to improve connectivity between Africa and Europe.
Interxion’s three selected facilities will enable Angola Cables
to connect directly to over 400 network service providers, as
well as to Europe’s largest Internet Exchanges, all physically
located in Interxion’s data centres.
Darwin Costa, Angola Cables Product Manager says:
“Minimising latency and optimising traffic routes has always
been principal to what we aim to do – expanding our network
to Frankfurt, London and Marseille brings us a step closer
to drastically improving connectivity between Africa and
Europe, having a direct independent African connection to
400 network providers and Europe’s largest IXP’s is a major
breakthrough for this undertaking.”
Angola Cables will also improve access to the major cloud
services providers and content providers that are key members
of the communities of interest present at Interxion facilities.
End users of such services in Africa will enjoy faster application
response times and improved reliability.
“Our focus is to significantly enhance Angola Cables’ quality
of services and choosing carrier-dense facilities in which to
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place Angola Cables’ PoPs is
critical to the execution of our
strategy,” said Artur Mendes,
Commercial and Marketing
Director, Angola Cables. “Our
network expansion to Interxion
Frankfurt, London and Marseille
enhances our ability to meet
the data and voice requirements
of our customers, including the
regional African operators that
we serve.”
Darwin Costa, Angola
“Angola Cables will provide
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Manager
our customers with effective
solutions to efficiently handle
the large increase in content that
is being exchanged between Europe and Africa,” said Mike
Hollands, Director, Market Development and Strategy. “Angola
Cables’ unique ability to integrate the local circuit, backhaul
and submarine capacity between Africa and Europe adds
tremendous value to our large community of customers in
these three cities.”
Costa concludes: “With Monet (expected to be completed at
the end of 2017) and SACS (expected to be completed at mid
of 2018), Angola Cables will offer some of the world’s most
sophisticated and extensive subsea cables systems granting
our customers in the African region access to vast amounts of
global content and better customer experience.” n
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