Seacom to invest in land network

“This is one of the many investments that we are making...as we continue to build the African Internet based on low-latency, high speed and reliable infrastructure,” Seacom CEO Brian Herlihy said in a statement.

The money would be used to buy optical fibre links as so then as equipment to manage its own network from a marine cable in Kwazulu-Natal to two points in Gauteng.

The new route

The new route was being created to meet the increased demand of broadband by content rich applications like cloud computing, HD video streaming and Internet Protocol Television.