IS Kenya hires US firm to upgrade its fibre network

Workers lay a fibre optic cable at Chepkanga on the Eldoret-Iten road on June 18, 2015. FILE PHOTO | NMG

What you need to know:

  • Telco Systems will upgrade the data service provider’s fibre network in the next 12 months, increasing its capacity to 10 gigabit ethernet.
  • This will allow customers to get speeds of several gigabytes at any point on the network.

Internet Solutions Kenya, formerly Access Kenya Group, has hired a US-based company to upgrade its fibre network across the country at a cost of Sh280 million.

Telco Systems will upgrade the data service provider’s fibre network in the next 12 months, increasing its capacity to 10 gigabit ethernet. This will allow customers to get speeds of several gigabytes at any point on the network.

“In the last two years, there has been a growing demand for capacity and other services layered on connectivity, from our enterprise customers. This new infrastructure has the capacity to support greater bandwidth, cloud services and enhance our data centre connectivity,” said Richard Hechle, the managing director of Internet Solutions Kenya.

In September 2013 AccessKenya Group was acquired by the Dimension Data Group at a cost of Sh3.05 billion.

It is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dimension Data Group. Internet Solutions Kenya partnered with a Silicon Valley start-up to offer households with low-cost data connectivity, returning to a market segment it exited in 2014.

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