NEWS
Paratus
extends coverage
across Africa
aratus, a leading telecoms
operator with operational offices
in six African countries, has now
implemented additional routes
for redundancy and is in the process of
an aggressive rollout plan, building even
more routes across the region to ensure
maximum uptime for clients using this
route. The company reported in August that
it had finally completed a terrestrial East and
West coast of Africa connection between
the WACS undersea cable in Swakopmund,
Namibia and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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Paratus Group COO Schalk Erasmus
says the route extends 4,160 kilometres
and is fully operational under one single
Autonomous System Number (ASN) and
boasts a Round Trip Time (RTT) of 62ms.
“Connecting land-locked countries, that
do not have access to undersea cable
systems, with much-needed capacity is
critical to ensure that we leverage the
infrastructure investment we have made
across the African region,” he said.
Paratus is currently in the process to
complete the Maputo link, which will
not only connect into the Trans-Kalahari
Fiber (TKF) route which already extends
through various countries in SADC, but
will also be the second East to West Coast
route completed by the operator after
completion of the initial route from Dar es
Salaam, reported in August.
“Africa is a continent with countless
opportunities, and we believe that we
need to harness this potential to see more
growth across the continent,” added
Erasmus. “It is evident that investment in
infrastructure does show growth in the
economy and are inextricably linked.”
OrbitsEdge signs OEM
agreement with Hewlett
Packard Enterprise
rbitsEdge, which provides
commercial access to data
centre-grade computing
and analytics in orbit, announced
it has signed an original equipment
manufacturer (OEM) agreement
with Hewlett Packard Enterprise
(HPE) to host HPE Edgeline
Converged Edge Systems with
its hardening solution, SatFrame,
to enable commercial space
companies to deploy computing in
orbit and accelerate exploration.
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OrbitsEdge’s SatFrame is designed to
host and provide the environmentals,
power, communications and
hardening which permits the use
of terrestrial (Earth designed)
technology in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
The SatFrame is built to compensate
for the environmental stressors
in orbit, such as radiation, on the
hardware itself.
The initial mission for the SatFrame
is to host the HPE Edgeline
Converged Edge System to provide
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a micro-data centre in orbit to process
the vast amount of space-based data
and help minimise the cost of backhaul
to earth. OrbitsEdge SatFrame design
provides years of constant and robust
performance in a small and affordable
footprint as space commercialisation
becomes a reality.
“Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the
ideal partner for OrbitsEdge since its
technologies have proven to withstand
extreme environments on Earth
and in space, with its deployment
of the Spaceborne Computer in the
International Space Station (ISS). This
partnership follows HPE’s innovative
strategy of enabling new solutions to
be developed and deployed years in
advance,” said Barbara Stinnett, Chief
Executive Officer of OrbitsEdge, Inc.
“OrbitsEdge will leverage HPE’s Edge
technology to run sophisticated
analytics such as Artificial
Intelligence (AI) on the vast amounts
of data that will be created as space
is commercialised.”
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