NEWS
Angola Cables
opens data centre
in Brazil
The companies will also continue to
enrich and expand their Connected
Conservation programme
ngola Cables has announced the
opening of its carrier-neutral
data centre, AngoNAP Fortaleza
in Fortaleza, Brazil. The completed facility
is now open for business and offers
scalability, continuous connectivity and
host and cloud services for local and
external entities.
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This interconnection point will help
African entities to develop businesses in
different regions of Brazil, Latin America
and the USA.
The facility is a primary interconnection
point for the region, which will host Angola
Cables’ two newest intercontinental
submarine cables, SACS (South Atlantic
Cable System) and Monet.
“The AngoNAP Fortaleza facility has far
reaching advantages and benefits for
CDNs, IXPs, OTTs as well as national
and international telecom operators and
content providers seeking to extend and
expand their global reach and product
offerings from Brazil to the world,” said
António Nunes, CEO of Angola Cables.
The company added that the structure of
the data centre will accommodate other
submarine international cables systems,
backhaul providers, content providers and
CDNs, including research and academic
Internet exchange points in Latin America.
According to Angola Cables, the new data
centre has been specifically designed to
receive more submarine cables landing
in Fortaleza and will provide multiple
connection services for any businesses
that require high capacity data services to
run their modern, Internet and technology
driven enterprises.
Dimension Data
and Cisco announce
co-innovation partnership
imension Data and Cisco
have announced a new
co-innovation agreement
to develop a deeper collaboration
environment and framework to
jointly solve clients’ business needs.
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Drawing on their respective core
strengths, competencies and
technologies, the companies
are coming together to provide
the scale and market-reach
to transform ideas into viable,
deployable solutions.
They have more than 28 years
of experience working together,
bringing to market a technology
portfolio that offer solutions from
the cloud to the data centre and all
the way out to the edge.
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Working closely to innovate beyond
traditional products to solve business
and operational challenges will
allow both companies to drive more
ambitious projects and outcomes.
They share a vision of tapping
into their deep pools of existing
technology and co-innovating with
customers and the broader ecosystem
to meet client needs as they arise and
deliver enhanced capabilities in an
agile fashion. ◊
As part of the multi-year
agreement, both companies plan
to leverage Cisco’s global network
of Co-Innovation Centres to drive
collaboration in key areas such as 5G,
Internet of Things and Blockchain.
Additionally, the two companies
will continue to enrich and expand
their Connected Conservation
programme that is leveraging
sophisticated solutions to protect
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and better the planet, endangered
animals and communities.
Ettiene Reinecke, Dimension Data’s
Group Chief Technology Officer
www.intelligentdatacentres.com