Namibia-based digital infrastructure company, Paratus Group has launched a fiber express route from Johannesburg to Europe. Leveraging Infinera FlexILS and GX Series DWDM equipment, the new route boasts a latency of 123 milliseconds and supports wavelengths of up to 800Gb.

This announcement comes after the company completed a 1,890km fibre link from Johannesburg, traversing Botswana, to Swakopmund. Paratus says this link seamlessly integrates with the Paratus-landed Equiano subsea cable, which spans Namibia to Lisbon and extends to London and the rest of Europe.

The new network presents network operators with an opportunity to improve their capacity and redundancy standards, ensuring smooth data flow and minimal service interruptions, the company adds.

The launch is particularly useful following the subsea  network disruptions a few weeks ago.. The most recent outage affected several internet service providers and cloud service providers across the country, including Vodacom, Microsoft Azure and Office 365..

“Our continual investment in creating Africa’s quality network is now extended with the launch of this express route. This is an exciting time for network operators in South Africa because they can now procure the fastest and most robust connectivity from Johannesburg to Europe,” concludes Schalk Erasmus, CEO of Paratus Group. Paratus Group is a digital infrastructure company providing wholesale IP services, satellite connectivity and data center services in Angola, Namibia, and Zambia.