• In recent months, the Equiano subsea cable has landed in South Africa.
• Google also announced that its first Cloud point of presence will be up and running locally in the coming year.
• Now Teraco has confirmed that its interconnected data centre platform will leverage the functionality of the Equiano cable.

November is shaping up to be a rather busy month at Teraco. This as the vendor-neutral data centre provider has expanded a handful of phases at its local campuses this month.

Its most recent announcement, however, is focused on interconnection, with Teraco confirming that it will provide regional connectivity via the Equiano subsea cable, which landed on our shores recently too.

Said cable will be leveraged by Google to be its first African Cloud point of presence, starting in SA sometime next year, and Teraco will be able to assist its customers with gaining access as well.

“Equiano lands in Melkbosstrand, north of Cape Town, and is backhauled via Equiano landing partners including Liquid Telecoms, Telkom’s Openserve, and WIOCC to Teraco’s data centre campus in Cape Town. Teraco’s CT1 and CT2 are strategic interconnection hubs on the African subsea cable map with access to Equiano and the cable systems of SAT3/SAFE, ACE and WACS that are already accessible from the facility,” highlights Teraco in a press release sent to Hypertext.

“CT1 and CT2 are connected to the JB1 Campus in Isando, Johannesburg, through a wide choice of carriers via diverse regional fibre routes. Equiano will enable clients to increase the number of partners they connect to and expand their reach into new markets. Teraco’s Cape Town facilities offers clients secure colocation and interconnection services, and the ability to leverage Teraco’s digital hubs in Cape Town and Johannesburg directly,” it adds.

The data centre provider is particularly enthused about what Equiano means for servicing the west coast of Africa, with it also branching into previously unserved countries on the continent.

“Equiano, which will be available from all Teraco data centre facilities, is a significant addition to Platform Teraco’s existing ecosystem of over 300 networks, 130 IT service providers, 50 global content providers, and the key global cloud providers,” notes Michele McCann, head of Platforms at Teraco.

“The cable brings connectivity across regions that were previously hard to reach. Through Teraco, access to this cable is an interconnect away. In keeping with our tagline ‘The world connects here’, we are proud to play a role in accessing this cable system,” she concludes.