[ 2011-04-09 ]

Globacom glows Ghana with fibre optic luanch
Glo 1, a high capacity undersea fibre-optic cable,
on Friday went live with its services that will
link Ghana to West Africa and the rest of the
world through high speed data and internet
traffic.

The 9,800km long submarine cable network, the
first project of its kind to be executed entirely
by a single organisation, berthed on the beaches
of Osu in Accra.

“We are happy to announce that the wait is over
and the Glo 1 is now ready to go live. The
relevant tests have been concluded and the
facility is now ready to carry traffic,” Mr
Adewale Sangowawa, Executive Director, Globacom
told journalists.

Mr Sangowawa said the state of the art cable would
enable all telecom operators to connect for clear
quality services through multiple and high quality
direct links to various countries across the
globe.

It would also enable such operators to
interconnect with several international networks
and leading traffic carriers in the world,
leveraging on Globacom’s extensive gateway
infrastructure and connectivity with leading
networks across the world, he said.

“The facility will guarantee access to ultra
fast and reliable internet connectivity and will
be the driving force for the business community
not only in Ghana but also in West Africa,” Mr
Sangowawa added.

He said businesses in the oil and gas, banking and
media, among others, would benefit immensely from
the global opportunities that the fibre optic
cable would offer. Apart from telecom carriers and
internet services providers, the platform could be
used to build robust applications like video
conferencing, telemedicine and distance education,
among others.

Mr Sangowawa said when launched later in the year,
Glo Mobile Ghana network would use the Glo 1 cable
to deliver excellent and unparalleled quality
service to the people and institutions.

The Glo 1 facility has been built with leading
technologies backed by Globacom and Alcatel-Lucent
and is set to transform the country’s
communications landscape and present Ghanaian
businesses with new opportunities of bridging the
digital gap between Ghana and the rest of the
world.

“These are exciting times indeed for Ghana and
the rest of Africa, as Glo 1 comes in to offer
immense opportunities for businesses across our
continent and enable them to compete on an equal
footing with their counterparts elsewhere in the
world,” said Dr Mike Adenuga Jnr, Chairman of
Globacom Limited.

”Today, Glo 1 is here in Ghana to deliver
transmission capacity which will radically change
the country’s economic landscape and, indeed,
that of our sub-region.”

Glo 1 runs on a huge capacity, upgradable to up to
2.5 terabytes per second. Glo 1 will link to three
European countries, namely the United Kingdom,
Spain and Portugal and 14 African countries
including Ghana, with a dedicated link to the
USA.

Glo 1 offers 99.9 per cent uptime reliability,
world-class long distance voice, video and data
communication services to the African
customer and caters for long-term bandwidth
requirements for voice and
data transmission across the West African
sub-region.

Source - GNA

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