AccessKenya Group extends metro fibre to Mombasa as part of its plans to build the largest IP based fibre network throughout Kenya

AccessKenya Group, the first publicly listed ICT Company and Kenya’s leading data and IT services experts today announced that its breaking ground to dig and lay its own fibre optic infrastructure in Mombasa in its ongoing plans to build what will be the largest IP based fibre network in Kenya. 

“We are delighted to announce that we are starting work on our Mombasa metro fibre network which will cover a large number of the biggest buildings in Mombasa. The network which will be initially laid around parts of Mombasa island will use full ring topology for uptime which will allow us to deliver outstandingly high broadband speeds and 100% redundancy to our corporate and residential customers. We will connect our offices at TSS building in Mombasa to Seacom and Teams fibre as well as other main buildings,” commented Jonathan Somen, Group Managing Director.

In ring topology, the network is build in form of a ring which ensures that if one part of the network gets a cut, traffic is rerouted to the opposite side of the ring meaning no downtime for clients. Once the broken part is repaired, traffic is rerouted back to the original side of the ring. Ring topology ensures 100% uptime for all clients on the network.

The network will be carrier Ethernet like our excellent Nairobi fibre network which is the latest technology that enables us deliver reliable services to our clients as well as new value added services like video conferencing, VOIP and other triple play services.

AccessKenya has chosen Enterprise Génèrale Malta Forrest (EGMF), a well established contractor and engineering company to manage the digging and laying of the physical infrastructure of the fibre network. EGMF have been involved in numerous other fibre networks both in metropolitan areas as well as nationally around Kenya including AccessKenya’s Nairobi metro fibre network which is Kenya’s first completely IP based fibre network.

“The massive explosion of IP based services including the fact that the internet runs on IP technology helped us to decide that deploying an IP fibre network will ensure we deploy the technology of choice for the future. Having an IP based network will allow us to offer more capacity at the most attractive prices, to keep very tight control of the quality of service and reliability of the network, as well as having more flexibility in offering value added services and other features across the fibre. All in all, this latest network expansion will further cement our position as the leading provider of data services and IT services in Kenya,” continued Somen.

AccessKenya already has 140km of metro fibre network covering over 250 buildings in Nairobi. It has the largest Wi-Max network in Kenya, as well as a long established Motorola wireless network that has approximately 3,000 square kilometers of coverage. The metro - fibre will give the Group the ability to offer significantly higher speeds to its 6500 customers across fibre from its 5000 megabits of international fibre.