NTT Europe Reaches Into Africa

LONDON -- NTT Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), announced today that NTT Com’s Europe-Asia network is now connected to the Europe-Africa network of Internet Solutions, a subsidiary of Dimension Data, via a Network to Network Interface (NNI).

The NNI between NTT Com and Internet Solutions connects 31 cities across 12 countries in Africa including South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda and is one of the major steps in the partnership from NTT’s acquisition of Dimension Data.

Masaaki Moribayashi, managing director, NTT Europe, said: ‘To provide our customers with a global network and open up access to Africa, we needed to either ‘partner’ or ‘build’. Building would be a slow process and would not provide extensive in-country connectivity. Partnering with Internet Solutions meant the NNI was enabled in weeks, not months or years, and NNI provides a direct connection to key African regions for new and existing clients. We have mapped and tested our suite of MPLS products against the capabilities of Internet Solution’s network and will deliver identical high level of service across the IS backbone.’

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