AccessKenya, Tata Launch Tier 1 POP in Kenya

The telecommunications service provider Tata Communications (www.tatacommunications.com) and Kenya Internet Service Provider AccessKenya Group (www.accesskenya.com) announced on Wednesday that have partnered to create a Tier 1 Internet point of presence of Tata Communications Nairobi, Kenya.

Tata is now the major supplier of Kenya to the global Internet connectivity to local companies, service providers and mobile operators.

Through the construction of a blast in Kenya, Tata will be able to offer these services providers access to one of the most dynamic and routing high-performance networks for global IP services.

The Pop IP is automatically configured to provide redundant paths for Internet traffic northward to Europe and southward to South Africa and to Asia and India on the cable system SEACOM (www.seacom.mu), ensuring that customer services are not interrupted.

In March, Tata became an anchor tenant customer in deep-sea cable $ 650 million, which is owned by 75 percent in African nations.

Besides resistance, service providers purchase bandwidth of Kenya will pop higher speeds and provides direct links to the new connection.

In the past, service providers in Kenya can only offer Internet connections to Asia or South Africa if international purchase fiber through a cable network to London, where all traffic is routed through London instead of a more direct route.

“Tata Communications is well established in the African market and has provided Internet access for ISPs over 10 years in Kenya and other African countries through the acquisition of Teleglobe,” says Claude Sassoulas, managing director of global data solutions to Tata Communications. “We are pleased to be able to draw on AccessKenya’s.”