Telecom Italia Sparkle, in partnership with Djibouti Telecom, adds IP POP in Djibouti, first IP POP in East Africa
Telecom Italia Sparkle, the international wholesale arm of Telecom Italia, and Djibouti Telecom are pleased to announce their top-tier IP POP is now available in Djibouti city, Republic of Djibouti.
The new POP has been established for the development of IP services in East and South Africa. TI Sparkle and Djibouti Telecom will provide an unprecedented cost effective, high quality and secure global IP connectivity to TLC operators, ISPs and service providers that are connected to Djibouti through existing and upcoming cable systems such as SMW3, Eassy, Seacom, EIG, and bilateral infrastructure.
“With the deployment of a new generation of submarine cable systems in East Africa, the IP node/exchange will play a significant role in the region by offering reliable and robust solution to support the increasing demand for international service from Eastern and Southern Africa” states M. Abdourahman Mohamed Hassan, Director General of Djibouti Telecom. “TI Sparkle global network reach and experience combined with Djibouti Telecom regional leadership will provide a very reliable solution and will reinforce our commitment in the region.”
“We are proud to have established a strategic relationship with a key regional player in Africa like Djibouti Telecom” said Paolo Ferrari, CEO of TI Sparkle. “Through this fully protected IP hubbing node in Djibouti, we bring the Internet thousands of miles closer to East and South African customers. As a result, our customers in Djibouti will be able to access the world’s most popular content hosted in Sicily through our extended global IP transit backbone Seabone. In addition, our customers will benefit from the additional advantage of exchanging their intra-regional traffic directly in Djibouti, instantly improving performance by saving hundreds of milliseconds with respect to any other European IP hub”.
About Djibouti Telecom
Established on September 1999 and sole Provider of telecommunication services in Djibouti, Djibouti Telecom offers of a full range of services from fixed, Wireless services (GSM, CDMA), Corporate and wholesale IP/DATA to ADSL networks. With its participation and ownership in number of submarine cable systems, Djibouti Telecom grows as a strong regional hub that connects east Africa with major telecommunications hubs in Europe, America, the Middle East and Asia. Its investment consists of five submarine cable systems (SeaMeWe3, Aden-Djibouti, Eassy, Seacom, EIG) with landing stations in Djibouti providing excellent diversity.