(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecommunications provider Tata Communications (www.tatacommunications.com) and Kenyan Internet service provider AccessKenya Group (www.accesskenya.com) announced on Wednesday that they have partnered to establish a Tier 1 Internet point of presence for Tata Communications in Nairobi, Kenya.
Tata is currently the top provider out of Kenya for global Internet connectivity to local carriers, service providers and mobile operators.
By building a PoP in Kenya, Tata will be able to offer these service providers access to one of the most dynamically routed and high performance global IP networks for service delivery.
The IP PoP is configured to automatically offer redundant paths for Internet traffic going north towards Europe and southwards to South Africa well as to Asia and India over the SEACOM cable system (www.seacom.mu), ensuring that customer services are not disrupted.
In March, Tata became an anchor tenant customer on the $650 million deepwater cable, which is owned 75 percent by African nations.
Besides resilience, service providers purchasing bandwidth from the Kenya PoP will be provided with higher speeds and direct links offered by the new connection.
In the past, service providers in Kenya could only offer Internet links to Asia or South Africa if they purchased international fiber through a cable network to London, where all traffic would be routed through London instead of a more direct route.
“Tata Communications is well established in the African market and has been providing Internet access to ISPs for over 10 years in Kenya and other African countries, via the acquisition of Teleglobe,” says Claude Sassoulas, managing director for global data solutions at Tata Communications. “We are pleased to be able to draw on AccessKenya’s.”
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