Ownership

Running an Internet Service Provider (ISP) is hard enough without also having to juggle four or five different infrastructure vendors, each responsible for a separate slice of your network. However, that’s been the reality for most Tier-2 and Tier-3 ISPs across Kenya.

Wholesale international capacity demands continue to grow, from tens of Megabits per second (Mbps) per circuit to multi-100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) – on multiple routes for resilience. This is driven by African consumers’ needs to reach cloud-based content and the global cloud community migrating its content into Africa to optimise end-user experience.