Liquid Intelligent Technologies announced the launch of its shortest terrestrial fibre route between the East and the West coasts of Africa, connecting Mombasa, Kenya to Muanda, DRC. With the completion of this route, Liquid establishes a new global internet transit route between Asia and the US through Africa, avoiding potential bottlenecks in the Middle East and Europe.
The new route will also serve tens of millions of people in Africa's landlocked cities, towns, and villages. This digital corridor passes through 847 cities, towns and villages, impacting more than 138 million people, and is also a direct route between South-East Asia and the Americas. In addition to available capacities between 1 Mbps to 100Gbps, Liquid will provide its customers access to data centre co-location, cloud and cyber security services.
For international customers, the corridor offers a low latency path to connect Asia, Africa and the US as an alternative to busier routes via the Middle East and Europe. The introduction of this route will allow global carriers and content providers to transmit through Africa to other global points of presence at the lowest possible latencies, the company said.
