New PoP means Seacom has Europe covered

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,...

Seacom expands European connectivity

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...

New undersea cable to connect Africa, Europe

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...

European cities begin smart journey

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...

Social media key for utilities

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...