Orange to construct network connecting 8 countries in West Africa

News Broadband Africa 13 NOV 2019
Orange to construct network connecting 8 countries in West Africa

Orange is announcing the construction of a new international backbone network connecting eight countries in West Africa from the second quarter of 2020. It will be built around a terrestrial fibre optic network coupled with submarine cables and will benefit from centralised supervision. It will connect to the rest of the world through various submarine cables and will link up  the main capital cities in the region, namely Dakar, Bamako, Abidjan, Accra and Lagos. 

The network will offer high levels of resilience and seamless availability thanks to diversified paths. As a result, a complete range of international connectivity services with accelerated delivery will be proposed. This includes International Private Line (IPL) services with bandwidth of 2 Mbps to 100 Gigabits and Ethernet Private Line (EPL) offers enabling natively secure point to point connections (L2 VPN) and available bandwidth from 2 Mbps to 10 Gigabits. 

Orange is also offering international stakeholders access to its portfolio of services such as hosting, OP transit, mobile data services (IPX), voice services, security and content delivery networks. 


 

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Voice services, Network equipment, Fibre, Internet Access

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