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The SupaBRCK running on a Vanu base station at the Nyawera school in the village of Rubaya, Rwanda.BRCK
The continent's first 5G live network in South Africa, the first 400Gbps backbone network in Kenya and a 750km fiber-optic network in the Edo and Ogun states of Nigeria were announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.
Despite a series of privacy battles around the world, Facebook is helping to expand Internet access in Africa through Facebook Connectivity division. Announced the Nigerian fiber initiative with MainOne, the Nigerian company that operates a Submarine cable of US $ 240 million, 7,000 kilometers long, from Nigeria to Portugal; as well as terrestrial fiber networks in the country.
This new 750km The deployment of open access fiber in the Edo and Ogun states will bring connectivity to 1 million people, Facebook said at the launch at the annual conference for the mobile industry this year expected to attract 21,000 visitors.
"When completed this year, this new infrastructure will be used to connect the base stations and points of presence of mobile operators, reducing costs and, more importantly, increasing capacity," Facebook said.
Facebook has backed similar projects financially in 2017. VAST Networks in South Africa has built fiber infrastructure for WiFi hotspots in Diepsloot and Katlehong, which now have 90,000 monthly users. In Uganda, Airtel and BCS built 770 km of fiber in the northwestern part of the country to connect their base stations and Internet points of presence (POPs) and allow operators to expand their coverage by 40 percent.
Facebook also announced that it is expanding the Express WiFi service – which allows small businesses to sell Wi-Fi to their customers – through partnerships with CellC mobile operators in South Africa and Vodafone in Ghana.
Safaricom, Kenya's largest mobile phone operator, said it was the first commercial deployment in the world of a 400Gbps backbone network provided by Huawei, the Chinese telecoms giant struggling with the safety of its equipment.
"Our capacity has grown and our demand for backbone capacity has been growing in our current 100G network," Elly Odera, head of network planning and design at Safaricom, told me in an interview. A cost analysis showed that increasing to 200Gbps or 400Gbps would cost the same. "For the same investment, it gives us twice the capacity and gives us a 10-year evolution plan for our backbone planning,"
It works cheaply based on cost per bit because "you can load more for less" and have a 400G network instead of multiples. 100G or 200G means "less fiber to illuminate and reduces complexity". It also simplifies traffic routing. "We are the first company to do this, but we are just lucky.When we were planning to upgrade our backbone, the technology just arrived,
Safaricom "has always been a pioneer in Africa because we were the first to launch mobile money, I think, in the world and we are happy to do so."
The ability to add 400 Gbps to a port on their routers is significant, Safaricom told me to CTO Thibaud Rerolle. "It's absolutely great to announce a first world" at Mobile World Congress.
"We have had the opportunity to work in a market where our customers have adopted use cases that we have been able to develop and it has been of great importance in the market to transform their lives.
Meanwhile, another Kenyan company – BRCK – is working with Facebook to develop an open source software platform called Magma. will help simplify and extend mobile network deployments for operators. "Magma includes a distributed mobile packet core that supports local data plan flight, automation software and network management. Magma's first launch partners are Telefonica, which is using Magma to help expand the rural connectivity in Latin America, and the BRCK, which is using Magma to pilot a new LTE network in Kenya, "Facebook said.
BRCK is a notable Kenyan company that brings Internet access to East Africa and this month acquired Surf, another internet provider, to become the largest public WiFi network in sub-Saharan Africa.
Earlier this week, South Africa's newest network, Rain, which& nbsp; offers only SIM cards with data announced that will launch the country's first 5G live network.
Rain has become a disruptive force in South Africa, which suffers from a lot of & nbsp;high mobile data costs. It operates in all major metropolitan areas with 3,000 towers, with expansion plans to more than 5,000 over the next two years.
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The SupaBRCK running on a Vanu base station at the Nyawera school in the village of Rubaya, Rwanda.BRCK
The continent's first 5G live network in South Africa, the first 400Gbps backbone network in Kenya and a 750km fiber-optic network in the Edo and Ogun states of Nigeria were announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.
Despite a series of privacy battles around the world, Facebook is helping to expand Internet access in Africa through its Facebook connectivity division. Announced the Nigerian fiber initiative with MainOne, the Nigerian company that operates a Submarine cable of US $ 240 million, 7,000 kilometers long, from Nigeria to Portugal; as well as terrestrial fiber networks in the country.
This new 750km The deployment of open access fiber in the Edo and Ogun states will bring connectivity to 1 million people, Facebook said at the launch at the annual conference for the mobile industry this year expected to attract 21,000 visitors.
"When completed this year, this new infrastructure will be used to connect the base stations and the points of presence of mobile operators (POPs), reducing costs and, more importantly, increasing capacity," Facebook said.
Facebook has backed similar projects financially in 2017. VAST Networks in South Africa has built fiber infrastructure for WiFi hotspots in Diepsloot and Katlehong, which now have 90,000 monthly users. In Uganda, Airtel and BCS built 770 km of fiber in the northwestern part of the country to connect their base stations and Internet points of presence (POPs) and allow operators to expand their coverage by 40 percent.
Facebook also announced that it is expanding the Express WiFi service – which allows small businesses to sell Wi-Fi to their customers – through partnerships with CellC mobile operators in South Africa and Vodafone in Ghana.
Safaricom, Kenya's largest mobile phone operator, said it was the first commercial deployment in the world of a 400Gbps backbone network provided by Huawei, the Chinese telecoms giant struggling with the safety of its equipment.
"Our capacity has grown and our demand for backbone capacity has grown from our current 100G network," said Elly Odera, Safaricom's head of network design and planning, in an interview. A cost analysis showed that increasing to 200Gbps or 400Gbps would cost the same. "For the same investment, it gives us twice the capacity and gives us a 10-year evolution plan for our backbone planning"
It works cheaply based on cost per bit because "you can load more for less" and have a network of 400G instead of multiples. 100G or 200G means "less fiber to illuminate and reduce complexity". It also simplifies traffic routing. "We are the first company to do this, but we are just lucky. When we were planning to upgrade our backbone, the technology just arrived."
Safaricom "has always been a pioneer in Africa because we were the first to launch mobile money, I think, in the world and we are happy to do so."
The ability to add 400 Gbps to a port on their routers is significant, Safaricom told me to CTO Thibaud Rerolle. "It's absolutely great to announce a world premiere" at the Mobile World Congress.
"We have had the opportunity to work in a market where our customers have adopted use cases that we have been able to develop and it was of great importance in the market to transform their lives.
Meanwhile, another Kenyan company – BRCK – is working with Facebook to develop an open source software platform called Magma. will help simplify and extend mobile network deployments for operators. "Magma includes a distributed mobile packet core that supports local data plan flight, network automation software and management. Magma's initial launch partners are Telefonica, which is using Magma to help expand rural connectivity in Latin America, and BRCK, which is using Magma to pilot a new LTE network in Kenya, "Facebook said.
BRCK is a notable Kenyan company that brings Internet access to East Africa and this month acquired Surf, another internet provider, to become the largest public WiFi network in sub-Saharan Africa.
Earlier this week, South Africa's newest network, Rain, which offers only SIM cards with data announced that will launch the country's first 5G live network.
Rain has become a disruptive force in South Africa, which suffers from high costs of mobile data. It operates in all major metropolitan areas with 3,000 towers, with expansion plans to more than 5,000 over the next two years.