Subsea Cables & Internet Infrastructure

With the exception of 2Africa, which has two landings one of which is 500 kilometers South of Lagos, all Nigerian landings are along a 25 kilometer wide beach in an area called Lekki. I expect 2Africa and Equiano to dominate the transport market going forward with 2Africa finally live in February or early March. At that point I expect combined capacity of these two modern cables to push prices into the teens for 100G waves. The older subsea cables like WACS, ACE, MainOne, SAT3, and GLO-1 will struggle to compete because their per bit costs are much higher. These older cables have far less capacity, but similar operating expenses similar to 2Africa or Equiano. For example, the older cables probably pay as much if not more for maintenance given their higher fault frequency. They are more likely to experience outages due to shallower burial and riskier routing through the blue ocean than either Equiano or 2Africa. Inferior service, higher costs. Not a recipe for success.  Unlike thei...

Nigeria is one of Africa's key telecom hubs along with Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, and South Africa. Lagos has many important data centers including OADC where the Equiano cable landing station is located, MDXI Equinix, Rack Centre, and Medallion. And Lagos has no metro dark fibre. Hence your success in this market depends on good lit metro pricing and fast deployment.  An excellent metro provider is offering great deals on 100G wavelengths between Lagos' three most important telecom hotels: Rack Centre , OADC , and MDXI Equinix . Both volume and term discounts available. Delivery is two to three weeks. Equiano capacity can be bundled with the metro services. One stop shopping.  Service: EoDWDM. SLA: Unprotected. Topology: Ring. Site 1: Rack Centre. Site 2: OADC. Site 3: Equinix. Capacity: 3x 100G.  x-connect: Excluded. NRC: US$20,000. MRC: US$14,500 (1 Year). MRC: US$13,020 (2 Year). MRC: US$12,420 (3 Year). Interface: 100GE.

I have teamed up with a nimble African carrier that can quickly deliver  100G waves on the Equiano   cable between carrier neutral data centres for $25K a month or less on 1 year contracts. Both Lisbon/Lagos and Lagos/South Africa routes. Best of all, the provider has a Lagos metro fibre network so it can extend your network on its own fibre from OADC where the Equiano CLS is housed to MDXI Equinix and other data important centres like Rack Centre. This offers significant cost savings over Bharti Airtel and China Mobile International.  We provide 100G wavelength rings between OADC, MDXI, and Rack Centre at prices far less than the customary market offers which vary from $7K to $11K per 100G span. Most Equiano cable capacity providers including t he Chinese and Indian carriers do not own fibre between the Lagos telecom hotels and hence their end-to-end capacity quote will rise by $5K to $10K once wavelength tails are included. Currently no dark fibre is available in Lago...