Jul 14, 2015
Seacom has gone live with a new point of presence (PoP) for its IP/MPLS network in Stockholm, Sweden. The pan-African telecom enabler and network provider now has PoPs in Europe’s five busiest centres for Internet traffic – Stockholm, Amsterdam, London,...
Jun 23, 2015
Seacom has added the Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) in Frankfurt, Germany to the growing list of European Internet exchange points at which it peers. This new peering agreement will mean that Seacom clients will enjoy better performance and less...
May 5, 2015
Alcatel-Lucent and the Algerian Ministry of Post, Information Technology and Communications, have signed a turnkey agreement for the deployment of the Orval system, an over 560 km fibre-optic undersea cable that will link Oran in Algeria to Valencia, Spain.With...
Mar 20, 2015
Kathy Gibson reports from CeBIT, Hanover – Much has been written and spoken about smart cities, but as yet there are few real-world deployments in action. This week at CeBIT, two European cities have taken the plunge to invest in smart city technologies, in an effort...
Nov 24, 2014
A new IDC Energy Insight study reveals that around two in every three European utilities use social media for business purposes or plan to do so in the short term, compared with 48% a year earlier. The study also highlights that further expansion in the social media...