04 November 2025
Raxio Group has announced a strategic partnership with digital network provider Laser Light Africa to enhance internet services across seven sub-Saharan markets, beginning with Angola.
The collaboration aims to localise data hosting and routing by integrating Raxio’s Tier III carrier-neutral data centres with Laser Light’s advanced digital network infrastructure.
Under this agreement, Laser Light will deploy its multi-domain optical mesh network — comprising terrestrial fibre, subsea cables, modular data systems, and medium-earth-orbit (MEO) satellite connectivity — across Raxio’s facilities. This will enable data to be hosted and routed closer to end-users in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda. The partnership also involves establishing points of presence (PoPs) and interconnection hubs within Raxio’s data centres to improve regional and international traffic flows.
Both companies plan to co-develop edge data centre strategies to bring cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and enterprise services nearer to users. This initiative aims to address data sovereignty, energy efficiency, and ICT compliance requirements unique to each country. Raxio highlighted that this localised approach will significantly reduce the cost of internet connectivity by lowering international wholesale bandwidth expenses by up to 90%, while also decreasing latency from hundreds of milliseconds to just a few milliseconds. Such improvements will support real-time applications like cloud computing, gaming, fintech, telemedicine, and AI-driven services.
Raxio’s Tier III facilities, which offer 99.982% availability, are designed to ensure high reliability for these emerging digital services. The initial phase of infrastructure deployment will start in Angola next year, centred around Raxio’s newest Luanda data centre, which will be integrated with the country’s existing subsea cable landings and Angonix Internet Exchange Point. Future phases will expand this connectivity across all Raxio facilities across multiple markets.
CEO Robert Skjodt emphasised that the partnership will also generate employment opportunities in construction, operations, and advanced network management, alongside training programs to develop local expertise in Tier III data centre management, peering, and optical networking technologies.
“By combining Raxio’s state-of-the-art facilities with Laser Light’s global optical network, we are delivering a platform that will power innovation, investment, and job creation for decades to come,” said Skjodt.
