SEACOM « Convergence Partners

Seacom invests R100m in local infrastructure

July 25th, 2011 | admin

Seacom, a Convergence Partners investee company, has invested R100 million in additional South African infrastructure to meet the continuous high growth in demand for broadband services and applications. The investment includes the purchase of physical optical fibre links from Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) as well as installing the equipment required for Seacom to manage the network linking KwaZulu Natal’s coast where the Seacom marine cable lands to two redundant Points of Presence (PoPs) in Gauteng.

Seacom continues African expansion in Mozambique and Zimbabwe

June 24th, 2011 | admin

Convergence Partners investee company, Seacom has signed a master services agreement with Telecomunicações de Moçambique (TDM), the leading telecommunications service provider in Mozambique, which gives it access to the largest and most distributed fibre optic network in Mozambique as well as a diverse route into Zimbabwe and additional border presence into Malawi and South Africa.

Tags: African, agreement, Beit Bridge, border, Brian Herlihy, fibre, Malawi, Maputo, Moçambique, Mutare, network, optic, provider, route, SEACOM, South Africa, TDM, Telecommunications, Telecomunicações, Zimbabwe
Posted in Media, News from the Group

SEACOM profiled in TechCrunch

June 13th, 2011 | admin

Seventeen years ago Wired published Neal Stephenson’s magisterial epic “Mother Earth Mother Board”, about the web of undersea fibre-optic cables being built to connect all of humanity. Well – almost all. Africa, again, was left behind. Until 2009, all of East Africa could only connect to the Internet over slow and hugely expensive satellite links.
Finally, two years ago, SEACOM, a Convergence Partners investee company, laid a cable along the East African coast to Mumbai; then tributaries were run thousands of kilometers inland, as far as Uganda and even Rwanda; and later this year, a direct connection to Europe will be lit up. A recent article in TechCruch explores some of the inner workings and history of the SEACOM undersea cable.

Tags: bandwidth, broadband, capacity, Convergence Partners, Djibouti, East African, Egyptian, high-tech hub, Internet, Kenya, Mahmout Noor, Mombasa, Mumbai, Peter Ouko, Rwanda, SEACOM, Somalia, submarine cable, Swahili, Uganda, UNESCO World Heritage site
Posted in Media, News from the Group

SEACOM’s Evolving Network Drives African Internet Growth

April 18th, 2011 | admin

Less than two years after completing the undersea portion of the first system to connect Southern and Eastern Africa to the rest of the world via India and Europe, Convergence Partners’ investee company SEACOM continues to drive the growth of the African Internet by rolling-out an Internet Protocol, IP, Platform into its international core network.
The IP Platform project involves the design, deployment and operation of nine land-based Internet access points that will store popular web content closer to where the Internet is accessed, thereby enabling a richer and faster Internet browsing experience for end users. Six of these IP network nodes are already live including Dar es Salaam, Johannesburg, Maputo, Marseille, Mombasa and Mtunzini.

Plessey in accord with Dark Fibre Africa to boost broadband

April 12th, 2011 | admin

Dimension Data subsidiary Plessey has won a R20m contract to install and maintain 11 regeneration sites on Dark Fibre Africa’s fibre cable linking Empangeni on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast and Pretoria in Gauteng.
Plessey chief operating officer Howard Earley says the sites will house equipment that will pick up any data on the fibre and rebroadcast it using a booster to make sure that data degradation doesn’t occur.

Convergence Partners Group steals the show: AfricaCom 2010

November 24th, 2010 | admin

AfricaCom, the Continent’s premier communications event, took place in Cape Town on 10 and 11 November. Chairman Andile Ngcaba was a featured speaker on day 1, highlighting the opportunities & challenges facing ICT investors in Africa, and the Convergence Partners Group was proud to unveil its new stand (see pictures attached) – the first time we have exhibited at the event. The rationale behind this was to showcase the many young and exciting companies in the Group and give them access to the burgeoning African communications market, as represented by over 5000 attendees over the two days.
The Convergence Partners stand was a hive of activity for the duration of the event (especially when our gorgeous ladies served up some great cocktails at the end of day 1). Companies in the Convergence Partners stand that were formally exhibiting at AfricaCom included Seacom, Convergence Wireless Networks (comprising WiA and Intra), Intelsat New Dawn Satellite Project, Plessey, Comsol, Integrat, Skillpod Media, Bloodhound, Inala, Convergence Border Management Solutions, as well as the Convergence Partners Foundation.
AfircaCom also coincided with the media launch of Convergence Partners’ latest project, FibreCo (see below blog).

New Dawn profiled in Communications Africa Magazine

August 11th, 2010 | admin

In the latest edition of Communications Africa Magazine, the technical and commercial benefits of geostationary communications satellites are assessed, contrasting them to both the failed high profile experimental satellite technologies of the previous decade, as well as to other communications technologies in Africa, notably fibre, as it arrives on the continent’s shores in abundance. In particular profiling the New Dawn satellite.

Seacom President, Brian Herlihy, named as ICT Newsmaker of the Year

January 18th, 2010 | admin

TechCentral, leading online technology website, has named Seacom President, Brian Herlihy as “the obvious choice” for Newsmaker of the Year for 2009. Seacom went live in July 2009 and has already resulted in dramatic price reductions and new investments in terrestrial infrastructure in East Africa

Tags: bandwidth, Brain Herlihy, connectivity, East Africa, fibre, Newsmaker, SEACOM, TechCentral, Undersea Cable
Posted in Media, Offical Press Releases

African Communications Market : Onward and upward (Research Report Vol 2 No.1 2009)

December 1st, 2009 | admin

This is an update to the Convergence Partners report entitled “African Telecommunications Market: Last Frontier For Growth” (Vol.1 No.1 of 2007) (“Report 1″).

Tags: broadband, development, Research, SEACOM, Technology, Telecommunications
Posted in Research

Convergence Wireless Networks invests alongside Internet Solutions in Mozambican ISP

November 24th, 2009 | admin

Convergence Wireless Networks and Internet Solutions announced today that they have collectively acquired a 68.5% equity stake in leading Mozambique based INTRA Lda.

Tags: broadband, CWN, internet Solutions, Intra, Networks, SEACOM, Wireless
Posted in Media, Offical Press Releases

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