As far back as 1997, the company established Econet Satellite Services, a satellite and voice operator, to expand telecommunications access in underserved areas of Africa. This was how Liquid Telecom, as it was then known, started connecting businesses, schools, and healthcare facilities, contributing to e-governance, e-education, thereby enabling the overall socio-economic development of Africa.
Liquid Tech: A one-stop shop for international connectivity into Africa
The company has invested in the infrastructure and expertise that seamlessly deliver international connectivity into, within, and out of Africa, thereby enabling new trade with Africa on a single network. Liquid, a subsidiary of Cassava Technologies, has proven itself to be a global force through the services it renders to over 50 multinational wholesale carriers operating in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa, Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific, as well as the national and international enterprise market.
Mindful that Africa’s digital future is an intelligent one, Liquid Technologies has credibly proven itself as a builder of new economic and trust infrastructure in Africa, smartly tackling complex problems confronting the continent headlong. The company’s innovative work has attracted the patronage of global conglomerates like Microsoft, Google, China Telecom, telenor, PCCW Global, at&t, Barclays, pwc, TATA, etc.
What Liquid Technologies Does
Through its Africa’s Cloud product, Liquid has been helping businesses tap into great opportunities in the cloud by providing an elastic cloud model that enables customers to scale quickly and on demand. These platforms include Amazon Web Services, Liquid Edge Platform-On-Demand (LEPOD), Google Cloud and Azure.
The Web3 Company also offers businesses direct and dedicated cloud connectivity while ensuring that customer data is always protected. Equally on its stables are productivity solutions that deliver on Dynamics 365, Microsoft products and Work From Anywhere. There are also voice & collaboration services, as well as cloud connectivity.
As per infrastructural solutions, Liquid Technologies has laid over 110,000km of terrestrial fibre across Africa, enabling access to all sub-Saharan countries via its One Africa broadband network. This has enabled the connection of 100,000 buildings, over 40 Points of Presence, and more than 800 Internet Peers across Africa. Owning and operating over 40 telecom licenses, Liquid’s fibre network footprint is unparalleled on the continent.
Liquid has also invested in the largest submarine cables landing in Africa, providing reliability, cost leadership and reach to millions of businesses and people across the continent. It has over 64,000km of subsea cables around Africa, with capacityon, or access to 2Africa, EASSY, EQUIANO, Peace, SAT3/SAFE, TEAMS and WACS landings in 25 countries, on both the West and East coasts of Africa.
This business of Cassava Technologies currently operates fibre network in 12 African countries. It combines international fibre, last-mile fibre, subsea cables, VSAT and data centres to deliver optimal solutions for business needs. This has gone a great length in exposing the world to the largest and fastest-growing African economies, with unprecedented bandwidth.
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