Government of Western Cape invests in Microsoft ExpressRoute

Pan-African telecom group Liquid Telecom delivered the first Microsoft ExpressRoute scanning service in Africa to the Western Cape government in South Africa.

Part of its CloudConnect offering and allows companies to establish private connections to Azure.

Previously, customers could not access ExpressRoute via peering sites in Europe, explained telco

. in an ExpressRoute link and is "the first customer with a direct private connection to the Azure Cloud that is traded locally in Africa."

A comment from the Western Cape Government reads: "Liquid Telecom's CloudConnect service has significantly increased the performance of Our cloud services and will support the deployment of advanced cloud solutions in a larger portion of the world. the region. "

Liquid Telecom SA She is the only Microsoft partner to provide ExpressRoute service in eight African countries on her own fiber, including South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya.

David Behr, group product manager, Liquid Telecom, said: The offer is another important step forward for Africa's cloud. Liquid Telecom's CloudConnect service is strongly positioned to be the highway that connects businesses to a host of leading local and global cloud services. "

Liquid Telecom added that it can offer ExpressRoute directly to the Azure Cloud in Africa when it was commissioned." Datacentres in South Africa later this year.

According to telco, this means that 39 "It can guarantee the performance of the end-to-end link in a service level agreement by routing all traffic to Africa" ​​and this "translate" into significantly reduced latency – due to the greater proximity of data centers compared to European-based facilities. "