A Angola Cables recently connected its GDI (Global Datacenter Interconnect) product with Flexential, which is the main owner and developer of data centers in the US, a factor that will benefit the customers of the Angolan multinational telecommunications operator of fiber optic telecommunications cables, whether in Africa, Brazil and Europe, as they will be directly connected to 40 new datacenter hubs across the United States.
According to the official communiqué, in which MenosFio's editorial office had access, with access to Angola Cables' MONET cable, housed in Flexential's data center in Fort Lauderdale, this partnership will make it possible to offer Angola Cables' customers low latency, high capacity and cloud solutions in the 40 highly redundant data centers, 7 cloud nodes and management and more than 13 thousand cross-connects that Flexential's network offers in the USA.
On the other hand, reinforces the note from the Angolan company, this partnership is of fundamental character to meet the growing demand of companies, service providers, as well as providers of cloud content, hyperscale and electronic commerce that seek implementations of connectivity in the American market. to update and increase its services in Africa and Brazil.
"Our partnership with Flexential will allow companies in Africa and Brazil to connect to more than 40 data centers across the US, free of local operating costs, thus being able to share content faster and easier from their sites in Africa with US markets and companies“, said Ângelo Gama, CEO of Angola Cables, quoted in the note.
The CEO also added that this high-capacity connectivity is the most appropriate in terms of cost and efficiency to serve multiple industries that link Africa to the US, such as the oil sector, e-commerce, scientific and academic research, among many others.
For Tim Parker, vice president of network strategy at Flexential, he stressed that “Through this agreement, we are collectively able to extend our managed services and bespoke IT and data center solutions to customers and businesses across the African continent.".
It should also be noted that with this connection, Angola Cables becomes the first operator in the world to guarantee the connectivity of 59 Data Centers from different global providers in its submarine cable network, a fact that will contribute to bringing even more content and applications from Europe , Brazil and USA for the African market and increases the importance of the Angola Hub for data entry in Africa by our country.
