Liquid Telecom Kenya and Nokia have signed a two-year partnership to upgrade their existing fibre network that will support OTN/DWDM technology with an initial network capacity of 500G.
In a statement, Nokia said the upgrade will boost faster and more reliable connection along the route from the Indian Ocean to data centres in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and neighbouring countries.
The telco group said the upgrade will enable it meet the growing demand from its carrier, mobile operator and Internet service provider customers for higher-capacity inter-networking services.