Interconnection of Member States’ Broadband Networks

Interconnection of Member States’ Broadband Networks

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This project aims to provide the sub-regional space of ECCAS with infrastructure that contributes to the security of cyberspace and contributes to creating confidence in an increasingly digital world and to guaranteeing the digital sovereignty of States.
This project aims to equip the underground space ECCAS regional infrastructure that contributes to the securing cyberspace and help build trust in a world increasingly digital and guarantee the digital sovereignty of states.
Among others, the main project objectives are to:
• Provide and/or strengthen each Member State with high bandwidth fibre optic connectivity
• Provide the ECCAS space with a sub-regional data hosting centre.

Implementation of an ECOWAS Regional Internet Exchange Points

Implementation of an ECOWAS Regional Internet Exchange Points

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The project is to set up a regional internet exchange point (RIXP) where traffic between countries within the West Africa region can be exchanged by public peering.
The Project involves interconnection with IXPs within ECOWAS Member States in order to create a regional Hub for digital services.
Among others, the main project objectives are to:
• Ensure that internet traffic which has source and destination within the West Africa region does not have to be routed through transit hubs of which most are located outside the region
• Increase efficiency and improve quality of experience and reduce the cost of transit-to-transit hubs located outside the region.

Transborder Submarine Fiber PoPs, Regional Smart Hub Facility and Data Centre

Transborder Submarine Fiber PoPs, Regional Smart Hub Facility and Data Centre

The project will interconnect Kenya and the neighbouring countries to relay the Kenyan terrestrial fibre network connecting the sub-marine cables arriving to Mombasa to their borders through PoPs and a Smart Hub Data Center.
The project objectives are to:
• Bring down the concept of internet access and telecommunication services
• Contribute to economic development, social well-being, and job creation through the capital role played by ICT in the industrialization process
• Support the growth of internet, digital networks and services to aid in the digital expansion of participating countries.

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Development of Data Centre Infrastructures Underpinning the Digital Economy

Development of Data Centre Infrastructures Underpinning the Digital Economy

The project envisages the implementation of six Data Centers in Burundi, Central African Republic, Sao Tome, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon- and the reinforcement of five –Angola, Republic
of Congo, Cameroun, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo.
The project objectives are to:
• Secure cyberspace and help create confidence in an increasingly digital world
• Regionalise the exchange of digital data within the Central Africa sub-region in order to reduce the response time and the data access time.

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Construction of Amilcar Cabral Submarine Cable System

Construction of Amilcar Cabral Submarine Cable System

The project aims to link some West African countries to the submarine Cable Ella Link, which connects Brazil to Europe, in order to strengthen their international IT connectivity. The new cable will run from Cape Verde to Liberia, with 4 branching units to Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea and Sierra Leone and 2 stubs for future expansion to the North and South respectively.
The entire length of the cable system will be about 3,555 km with an estimated lifetime of 25 years.
Among others, the main project objectives are to:
• Strengthen international IT connectivity and guarantee redundancy
• Contribute to the digital development
• Facilitate socio-economic development
• Improve Cape Verde’s integration with the West Africa.

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