BringCom deploys pan-African fiber ring network
BringCom Inc. says it has completed construction of a pan-African fiber ring network. The fiber ring provides connectivity to BringCom’s European hub in London.
The service provider, based in Sterling, VA, will use the ring to provide customers in East and West Africa with SD-WAN, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), and Edge Cloud services. The SD-WAN service acts as a cloud connect service for afriQloud, BringCom's local and distributed cloud services platform. afriQloud offers infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) capabilities for virtual data center and virtual machine (compute) needs in East Africa. The ring also provides increased network resiliency.
"This pan-African fiber ring offers our corporate and government customers seamless connectivity and increased redundancy in Africa," said Fabrice Langreney, president and CEO of BringCom. The company also offers international traffic interconnection via what it asserts are “numerous cable landings” to the networks of its local partners.
BringCom has offered international and last-mile connectivity since 1992 to international enterprise and government customers located in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
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