Four high-capacity internet cables were severed in a suspected subsea seismic event near Ivory Coast on 14 March.
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Many companies have moved to the cloud, but have they effectively replaced one set of challenges with another?
Internet service providers serving Africa have been forced to send their traffic via elaborate detours.
Repairs to damaged subsea cables in West Africa are expected to take at least five weeks.
Disruption to internet services for millions of users in Africa could take weeks or even months to fix.
Widespread problems were affecting the internet in South Africa on Thursday due to multiple undersea cable breaks.
Nasdaq-listed Equinix is pressing ahead with a project to build a R3-billion data centre in Johannesburg.
Equinix plans to invest R2.8-billion to build its first data centre in South Africa, as part of the firm’s African expansion push.
Equinix is acquiring Nigerian data centre and submarine cable operator MainOne in a deal that gives MainOne at an enterprise value of $320-million.
The fading facades of century-old buildings in a neighbourhood of the Nigerian megacity of Lagos house a vibrant technology cluster that’s caught the eye of Facebook and Google.