NAIROBI: MTN Business Kenya has embarked on a service improvement project. This has seen the company finish laying a metro fibre network in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu for connection to its fibre infrastructure at the Mombasa sea cable landing station.
Technical Manager Lawrence Lubanga said that MTN Business Kenya has been relying on third parties for backhaul of capacity between Mombasa and Nairobi, leading to extra costs. It has so far connected more than half of its clients in Nairobi to the new metro fibre, and expects to have the rest connected before the end of the year.
The Kisumu fibre has been operational since the beginning of September. Lubanga said the technical team has been equipped to deal with any fibre cuts within three hours of reporting. MTN Business recently launched a pan-African cloud platform using Microsoft technology, offering customers a hybrid cloud service based at MTN’s data centres.
The improved fibre infrastructure in the three major cities will enable MTN customers to effectively make use of the service, as the platform runs off enterprise-grade infrastructure, providing clients with flexibility and increasing their agility.
