Airtel to strengthen Mobile Data Services in Africa
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE
Africa Connect has an integrated fiber and satellite network with 42 Points of Presence (PoP) spread across 17 African countries. The network is supported by infrastructure built by other regional carriers.
Ajay Chitkara, CEO - Global Business, Bharti Airtel, said, "Africa Connect is in consonance with our underlying theme to serve one of the fastest-growing data markets in the world. Africa is also emerging as an economic hub and we are uniquely poised to connect the continent to the rest of the world and fully serve the growing bandwidth demand. Our full-suite of integrated telecom offerings together with our end-to-end service modules will help expand our access to high growth markets in the region and consolidate our efforts of making India as a hub for global internet traffic."
Africa Connect will allow enterprise and carriers customers' seamless connectivity to the key global business hubs via multiple routes.Apart from the fully integrated managed services, 42 new PoPs will offer customized MPLS infrastructure to the enterprise customers across 17 countries in which Airtel already operates. The new network further augmented its reach and connectivity using the multiple Network.......See More
As an initiative to enhance its connectivity to Africa and add data carriage capacity in the continent, Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of its Africa Connect network. This network is expected to contribute to the growth of internet and data services in the Continent. The network will offer a variety of integrated telecom applications and solutions.
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Africa Connect has an integrated fiber and satellite network with 42 Points of Presence (PoP) spread across 17 African countries. The network is supported by infrastructure built by other regional carriers.
Ajay Chitkara, CEO - Global Business, Bharti Airtel, said, "Africa Connect is in consonance with our underlying theme to serve one of the fastest-growing data markets in the world. Africa is also emerging as an economic hub and we are uniquely poised to connect the continent to the rest of the world and fully serve the growing bandwidth demand. Our full-suite of integrated telecom offerings together with our end-to-end service modules will help expand our access to high growth markets in the region and consolidate our efforts of making India as a hub for global internet traffic."
Africa Connect will allow enterprise and carriers customers' seamless connectivity to the key global business hubs via multiple routes.Apart from the fully integrated managed services, 42 new PoPs will offer customized MPLS infrastructure to the enterprise customers across 17 countries in which Airtel already operates. The new network further augmented its reach and connectivity using the multiple Network.......See More