WIOCC’s clients are African and international fixed-line and mobile operators, internet service providers, wireless internet service providers, infrastructure providers, cloud operators, content providers and governments.

WIOCC’s unique African network takes advantage of a comprehensive terrestrial footprint – over 75,000km of fibre-optic network – and over 200,000km of subsea systems, much of it owned by WIOCC shareholders. This network provides access to more than 1,000 locations in 30 African countries.

WIOCC’s international network extends to major global financial and communications hubs, where WIOCC also supports interconnection at major international internet exchanges and data centres.

WIOCC has invested in capacity on many of the submarine cable systems landing in Africa – including AAE1, EASSy, EIG, SMW5, TE North, TNGWER and WACS. Most recently, it has invested in the Equiano (Google) subsea cable – a new high-capacity connection between Africa and Europe – and 2Africa, the Facebook/Meta subsea cable, that will connect Africa with Europe and Asia.

With both its comprehensive subsea and terrestrial reach, WIOCC is able design solutions tailored to each client’s specific requirements for capacity, diversity, low latency, etc. In the case of EASSy, EIG, SMW5, TE North and WACS, WIOCC has made strategic investments to secure large amounts of capacity at extremely competitive prices.

WIOCC has invested in the WACS, EIG and SMW5 cables. This is to give its clients access to a seamless high-capacity ‘ring’ around Africa, providing valuable east+west coast diversity between sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. Its investments in AAE-1, TE North and SMW5 add much-needed diversity through the Red Sea and to Europe. These strategic investments have enabled WIOCC to offer highly-scalable and very high-capacity east+west coast diversity solutions, and to extend the reach of its seamless regional and international services to more African countries. Most recently, it has invested in the Equiano (Google) subsea cable – a new high-capacity connection between Africa and Europe – and 2Africa (Facebook/Meta) subsea cable, that will connect Africa with Europe and Asia.

WIOCC now has the ability to offer carriers, ISPs, WISPs, cloud operators and content providers higher levels of redundancy at more affordable prices and to deliver reliable, high-speed connectivity all around Africa.

WIOCC’s investment in WACS, the West African Cable System, gives it the ability to offer connectivity to each of the 15 WACS landing stations including Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, DRC, Congo Brazzaville and Cameroon. Our most recent investment in the region is in the state-of-the-art Equiano (Google) subsea cable, with WIOCC chosen as Google’s landing partner in Lagos.  Equiano will become a critical element in meeting Nigeria’s current and future international connectivity demands, establishing a valuable new high-capacity connection between the African continent and Europe.

WIOCC has invested in its own fibre infrastructure in Nigeria, linking the main data centres in Lagos and Abuja to the Equiano, WACS and SAT3 cable landing stations on the coast, and in alternative subsea capacity for delivery of protected solutions. Further to this, WIOCC is establishing relationships with in-country carriers in other parts of West Africa to offer its clients backhaul and last-mile delivery.

WIOCC offers three types of services – point-to-point connectivity between any locations on its global network (including Metro locations throughout the Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban, East London, Gqeberha, Johannesburg/Pretoria metropolitan area in South Africa, Abuja and Lagos in Nigeria, Lusaka in Zambia and London in the United Kingdom), IP Transit and Colocation services.

Global Connectivity:

• dedicated point-to-point bandwidth anywhere on WIOCC’s global network:

  – client sites

  – carrier Points of Presence

  – data centres, internet exchanges & submarine cable landing stations

Carrier IP Transit:

• tier-1-grade, wholesale IP connection to the global internet
• low latency, intra-Africa traffic
• wide range of Committed Information Rates; small capacity increments
• diversity options

Metro Connect:

• end-to-end managed Metro connectivity
• ethernet capacities up to and beyond STM64/100Gbps
• flexible incremental ethernet upgrade capacity
• protection & diversity options available
• can be bundled with ISP Transit service

ISP Transit:

• ethernet capacities up to and beyond STM64/100Gbps
• scalable ethernet bandwidths
• benefits of WIOCC’s extensive public & private peering – nearly 70% of traffic on WIOCC’s IP network rides on peers
• can be bundled with Metro Connect service

Colocation:

• available at key WIOCC PoPs, in partner PoPs (including those of WIOCC Group company Open Access Data Centres ) and specific landing stations
• shared rack space or dedicated racks/suites to suite client requirements
• environmentally-controlled space
• simplified interconnection with WIOCC network