Spanning over 1,000km, the fibre link between Kenya and Ethiopia is designed to offer businesses in Ethiopia access to datacentres and cloud in Nairobi, Kenya, ensuring that data doesn’t leave the continent. Moreover, Liquid said it was aiming to catalyse African growth through its intelligent fibre backbone, providing cost-effective, regional internet connectivity that enhances digital transformation. Liquid Intelligent Technologies has launched two fully redundant terrestrial networking routes connecting Kenya to Ethiopia and Zambia to MalawiIn partnership with the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO) and Ethiopia Electric Power (EEP), Liquid’s new Nairobi and Mega link provides a capacity of 4TBps (terabytes per second). As Liquid increases its investment in Ethiopia, it expands on its long-standing commitment to ignite transformation, job creation and growth on the continent. “Kenyan and Ethiopian businesses are rapidly adopting digital technologies, and this new link will enable trade and investment between these two great nations in our region,” said Adil El Youssefi, CEO Rest of Africa at Liquid Intelligent Technologies.

Source: Ethiopian News September 14, 2023 14:26 UTC