The Federal Government has created a
new distribution plan to boost undersea fibre cables in the country.
This, DigitalSENSE Business News discovered
would propel adequate distribution to other parts of the country.
The government equally viewed that the
concentration of undersea fibre cables, according to DigitalSENSE Business News
findings has pipes in excess of 9 terabits of transmission capacity on the
shores of Lagos, and has created capacity glut in the state to the detriment of
other parts of the country.
DigitalSENSE Business News gathered
that because of the importance of undersea fibre cable to national security,
President Goodluck Jonathan has therefore, endorsed a new national broadband
diffusion plan that will enable their companies to build additional landing
points in the Niger Delta area.
The Broadband Plan, DigitalSENSE Business News also gathered read in part that “In Nigeria, there
is now an appreciable number of submarine cable landings on the shores of the
country providing over 9 Tbit/s of combined capacity. However there is concern
about the fact that all the landings are in Lagos and that access to other
parts of the country is choked due to the limitations of distribution
infrastructure to the rest of the country.”
DigitalSENSE Business News
recalls that defunct NITEL and other companies built the SAT-3 undersea cable
that had supplied the required bandwidth across several African countries, while other undersea
cables are owned by companies such as Globacom that owns Glo 1, Main One owns
Main One, and MTN Group that formed a consortium which built the West Africa
Cable System (WACS and all these have concentrated landing points on the
commercial city of Lagos.
The new national
broadband diffusion plan, DigitalSENSE
Business News further gathered is meant to create redundancy and mitigate
risk that is connected with downtime on the network, and also meant to offer
new landing points for the undersea fibre cables companies into the Niger Delta
and coastal terrain of the country.DigitalSENSE Business News
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*Pix: President Goodluck Jonathan
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