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African Subsea Fiber & Hyperscale Cloud Infrastructure | AKI Platform

Tracking subsea fiber cables (2Africa, Equiano), hyperscale public cloud regions (AWS Cape Town, Azure SA), and carrier-neutral data centers.

⚡ African Subsea Fiber & Hyperscale Cloud Infrastructure

2Africa Subsea Cable
Meta, China Mobile, Orange, Vodafone, Telecom Egypt
Subsea Fiber Cable

The world's largest subsea cable system encircling the African continent, delivering unprecedented multi-terabit bandwidth and dropping trans-Atlantic latency below 85ms.

180 Tbps Design Capacity (45,000 km) Active Operational
Equiano Subsea Cable
Google (Alphabet)
Subsea Fiber Cable

State-of-the-art optical subsea cable providing 20x higher bandwidth capacity to West Africa, drastically slashing cloud transit costs for AI model fine-tuning.

144 Tbps Space-Division Multiplexing (SDM) Active Operational
AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Hyperscale Cloud Region

Sub-Saharan Africa's premier hyperscale public cloud region offering EC2 GPU instances (G4dn, G5), SageMaker, and native edge caching.

3 Availability Zones (af-south-1) Active Operational
Microsoft Azure South Africa Central
Microsoft
Hyperscale Cloud Region

Enterprise Azure region hosting local OpenAI service endpoints, Cognitive Services, and low-latency sovereign workloads for African financial institutions.

Enterprise Hyperscale Data Centers Active Operational
Africa Data Centres (ADC) Platform
Cassava Technologies
Carrier-Neutral Data Center

Pan-Africa's largest interconnected carrier-neutral data center provider hosting critical cloud onramps, IXPN peering exchanges, and high-density GPU racks.

50+ MW Interconnected Footprint across 6 Nodes Active Operational