06 September 2021

The Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable is live and available for interconnection at all three of Teraco’s data centres across South Africa.

This comes after the ACE cable put the last segment of the cable linking Europe, West Africa and South Africa into commercial service at the start of June.

Teraco said that ACE spans approximately 17,000km along the West Coast of Africa and connects to 19 countries before backhauling via landing partner MTN South Africa to its data centres.

ACE is the eighth submarine cable system to connect at Teraco.

“Our POP-to-POP connection (Paris – Lisbon – Cape Town) gives access to major European and African cities, allowing better connectivity to the worldwide internet,” ACE said.

Michelle McCann, the head of interconnection and peering at Teraco, added: “Data centres like ours act as the perfect neutral hub for interconnection and data exchange. It’s here that onramps and switching points from many different cloud providers and network operators meet.”