The fantasy of living in an isolated island is a popular dream of many, but many of these areas are fast becoming a lot less secluded as local populations and businesses demand better connectivity, both on the island and to connect to friends and family members elsewhere in the world. Answering this call, operators are…
The rapid increase in smartphone and data usage across Africa has been the real success story in the region in recent years, with the continued roll-out of high quality data provision fuelling an explosion in usage and demand for consumers across the continent. There is still huge potential for further growth, but in some regions…
In May 2013 the Infinera DTN-X platform was selected to upgrade BICS’ Pan-European network, stretching across 9,000 kilometers of fiber in Europe and linking through the cable landing station in Marseille into the EIG & SEA-ME-WE 4 submarine cable systems. The Infinera DTN-X delivers 500 Gigabit per second long haul super-channels, enabling BICS to deliver…
BICS selected the Djibouti Data Center (DDC) to serve as its location for a gateway hub in East Africa. BICS will leverage the Djibouti Data Center’s strategic position in East Africa as the major meeting point for undersea fiber optic cable systems connecting Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, to Africa. The Djibout Data Center…
Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone, has signed an agreement to use BICS’ Pan European Network (PEN) 2.0 to connect major European cities. In Europe, Hurricane Electric needed a high quality carrier with a large European footprint, able to deliver low latency 100GbE wavelengths. Since BICS owns and operates 9,000 kilometres of fibre…
Michael Schachne, VP of Mobile Data at BICS, has been recently interviewed by Capacity Magazine. Michael talks to the jornalist about the development of BICS’ IPX business and the gradual evolution of the operators to IP. You can read here the interview and discover how LTE is catalysing the IPX migration of BICS customers as a natural…
The use of smartphones, broadband devices and other services such as video streaming, constantly increases the demand for capacity. To answer this growing demand and deliver an even more cost-effective solution, BICS is offering now access to exchange points across its transport infrastructure. It allows ISPs to peer without a physical presence at the peering…