The ICT sector and telecommunications industry in Angola have made headlines of late, inspired by the João Lourenço-led government’s talk of licensing a new telco to bolster domestic competition, the country’s prominence as a landing site for fiber optic cable networks and launchpad for relevant projects. But is it premature to describe the market as a “rising giant”?
In early June, Angola’s government initiated a tender process to accommodate a third operator “to improve services and reduce the telephone tariffs for users.”
In February 2018 ITWeb Africa reported that Angola Cables had completed its South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) deep-water installation.
SACS aims to connect Angola and Brazil across 6500km in the South Atlantic with 40 Tbps (100Gb/s x 100 wavelengths x 4 fibre-pairs) of capacity.
Angola Cables says this will be the first direct link between the Americas and the African continent, offering a faster routing with higher capacity. 100% owned and managed by Angola Cables, the SACS cable links the data centre of Angonap Fortaleza, Brazil to Angonap in Luanda, Angola.
From IT Web Africa. Story
The company’s executive leadership reiterated that the cable will be fully operational by Q3 of 2018 and “latency will be reduced five-fold, from the current 350 thousandths of a second to just over 60 thousandths of a second.”
Angola is also included in a list of countries that can expect to leverage a global Siemens Digitalisation Network (SDN) built on SD-WAN infrastructure, connecting 1,500 sites in 94 countries.
Certainly the impression given is that the South East African country’s market is on the rise and will surprise many as a tech force to be reckoned with.
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