Angola Cables telecommunications company, announced an agreement with the West and Central Africa Research and Education Network (WACREN), which facilitates interconnections in these regions of the continent.
The agreement will support growing connectivity among academic communities in West and Central Africa, which will include services that promote collaboration between research and education institutions within and outside the region.
Angola Cables is part of the consortium of companies that manage the cable system W (WACS), which provides operator-level services to operators in Angola and the sub-Saharan region of Africa. The company is also building the South Atlantic cable system (BAGS), which will make the connection between Angola and Brazil, to be completed in the middle of 2018, which will connect to the submarine cable system of Monet.
Antonio Nunes, CEO of Angola Cables, said, "WACREN is an important institution in Africa's growing connectivity requirements and Angola Cables recognizes the need for African scientists, researchers and other academics to have a bandwidth comparable to its international colleagues."
Boubakar Barry, CEO of WACREN, stated that: “by increasing our alliance, Angola Cables will certainly play an important role in enabling us to increase connectivity in our region and in addition to allowing our members to collaborate more efficiently among themselves and with colleagues from other parts of the world ”
WACREN was involved in the development of the TransAfrican network (TANDEM), a project aimed at expanding integration into the global REN community, as well as Sci-GaIA (Energizing Scientific Endeavor through Science Gateways and e-Infrastructures in Africa), a Africa that produces educational and training resources in various fields of science and MAGIC (Middleware for Collaborative Applications and Global Virtual Communities), all funded by the European Union.
