The government of Tanzania constructed a National ICT Broadband Backbone (NICTBB) connecting all Regions in Tanzania and cross-border connectivity to Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. The NICTBB has a total length of 7,910 Km. The aim of NICTBB is to provide connectivity to all neighbouring countries. Now the government is planning to connect with DRC by construction of optical fiber cable. The ideal of connection is between Kigoma in Tanzania and Kalemie in DRC, where the submarine optical fiber cable will be constructed. To achieve direct cross border link across lake Tanganyika requires understanding of lake Tanganyika’s bottom terrain and hydrology, landscape of beach sides, assessment of risks for marine activity and analysis of environmental factors for an in-depth design.
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The proposed project addresses enlargement of the regional ICT coverage by providing services for unconnected customers with satisfied and affordable quality and prices. Moreover, crossing border cable will significantly contribute to injecting new communities and activities across its route as well as additive job opportunities.
Among others, the main project objectives are to:
• Create the possibility of Sudan being a regional Hub because of its Special geographical location
• Provide broadband connectivity with affordable prices
• Connect land-locked countries in West and Central Africa
• Create an open access gateway.
The project is a major Terrestrial Broadband Backbone designed to convey the excess bandwidth capacity from coasts to hinterland and also provide an alternative gateway to Europe through Algiers. It is one of the presidential infrastructure champion Initiative (PICI) 2010 – 2015 aimed at accelerating socio-economic diversification of benefiting Countries. Among others, the main project objectives are to:
• Increase broadband penetration
• Provide effective and efficient operation, monitoring, maintenance and management of critical infrastructure along the Trans Saharan route
• Provide an alternative international gateway to Europe; provide access point to landlocked Countries. The Report of the Feasibility Studies will assist wholly for effective planning and execution of the overall project activities.
The Government of Tanzania constructed a National ICT Broadband Backbone (NICTBB) connecting all Regions in Tanzania and cross boarder connectivity to Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. The NICTBB has a total length of 7 910 Km. The aim of NICTBB is to connect all neighboring countries. Now the government is planning to connect Mozambique to enable access of submarine cables landed in both countries. This connect will increase the reliability of the sea cables in the SADC and EAC regions.
Among others, the main project objectives are to:
• Provide connectivity to Mozambique so that they can have access to sea cables of EASS and SEACOM landed at Dar es salaam and also Tanzania will have access to sea cables landed in Mozambique
• Create resilience of international connectivity in SADC and EAC regions.
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This project will host a SADC Regional IXP, additional Root Server Instances and adequate capacity cloud services for the region. Tier 3 Certification (99.982 % uptime, No more than 1.6 hours (95 minutes) of downtime per annum and N+1 fault tolerant providing at least 72 hours of power outage protection).
Among others, the main project objectives are to:
• Centralise the various critical and complementary core infrastructure elements that will reduce operational costs
• Optimize the performance of Internet access to meet current and future demands of region
• Ensure that Internet access, tools and services are available and remain resilient against any regional or global crisis
• Reduce the cost of and stimulate hosting of content, create a cloud-based services ecosystem to accelerate eservices, and provide Government and the private sector with simple, flexible, scalable and secured solutions, with disaster recovery capability, in the region.
