• Angola Cables says that 70 percent of the internet traffic that travels in and out of Africa flows through its cable network.
• It is the only African operator ranked in the top 50 of the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis’ global rankings of internet cable operators.
• African customers are hungry for data and fast-speed internet which is driving demand for Angola Cables.

West Africa’s largest internet cable operator, Angola Cables, claims that 70 percent of the internet and data traffic that flows in and out of the African continent flows through its spanning cable network, either on land or undersea.

This is according to Rui Faria, chief commercial officer of Angola Cables, who adds that “Hyperscalers, streaming and gaming networks are using SACS as well as the Angola Cables’ backbone and its partner networks to connect to Europe and Asia at lower latencies.”

“The increase in digital content consumption, the rapid expansion of cloud computing services and the ever-rising demand for high speed, low latency connectivity are just some of the factors that have led to the record levels of traffic being registered across the Angola Cables network,” the company says in a press statement sent to Hypertext.

Faria says that many hyperscalers, content providers and other carriers have been using the South Atlantic configuration of the SACS, Monet and WACS cables as a convenient redundancy option to connect to destinations in the USA and the UK and Europe using EllaLink, which has affected traffic handled by Angola Cables.

“The recent cable faults experienced in parts of Africa and the Red Sea has resulted in large volumes of traffic being diverted to other cables. But apart from this, we have seen a steady and significant growth in overall traffic over our backbone network,” he said.

According to the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), Angola Cables is now ranked 24th in their official global rankings and the only African network operator in the top 50.

These rankings highlight the number of direct and indirect customers or links across a specific cable network. Angola Cables says that today it manages capacity across more than 80 000km of subsea cables with multiple links to data centres and internet exchanges across Africa, which are steadily growing in number every year.

“This milestone underscores Angola Cables’ growing responsibility and responsiveness to customer needs in West African markets, with an emphasis on improved Service Level Agreements (SLA). Our status as a reliable operator, fostering strong relationships with both local and international customers, is a testament to our resilience, commitment to good connectivity, security, and product diversity,” said Fernando Fernandes, chief executive officer for TelCables Nigeria, the local operation for Nigeria and West Africa countries of Angola Cables.

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