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    MainOne and Equiano Cable: Boosting Connectivity in West Africa

    By Jessie ChenSeptember 5, 2025No Comments2 Mins Read
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    • Network Resilience: MainOne has integrated capacity on Google’s Equiano submarine cable, bolstering its network’s redundancy and ensuring uninterrupted connectivity for enterprises.

    • Expansion Efforts: The company is actively expanding its data centre footprint, with recent developments in Nigeria, Ghana, and Côte d’Ivoire, to meet the growing demand for digital services.


    MainOne’s Strategic Integration of Equiano Cable

    MainOne has strategically downloaded additional power on Google’s Equiano submarine cable in response to periodic network downtime, including the underwater landslide that harm a number submarine cables along the coast during West Africa. In addition to boosting bandwidth, this acquisition significantly enhances the company’s network resilience through introducing a layer of redundancy that guarantees service providers and businesses that they will continue to be connected even in situations of unexpected failures. Equiano’s advanced cable infrastructure allowed MainOne to fix an enduring problem in the region’s digital landscape by better controlling data traffic, reducing latency, while improving overall service reliability.

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    Expansion and Innovation in West Africa

    MainOne’s constant establishment of revolutionary information centers in important cities which include Lagos, Accra, and Abidjan, clearly indicates its concentration on development and creative thinking. Furthermore to catering to the growing demand for digital services, these facilities are created to offer enterprises in high-performance, scalable, and secure infrastructure solutions—all of which are critical for modern dance commercial operations. The company’s Tier III information center in Accra, Ghana, for instance, is the top carrier-neutral facility in the entire country and operates a diverse clientele that the require dependable and consistent connectivity, which includes banks, cloud service operators, telecom carriers, and ISPs.

    Furthermore, consumers are receiving easy access to a global network of storage facilities and digital services via MainOne’s integration into the Equinix ecosystem. Furthermore to strengthening collaboration across borders, this link lets companies to use the benefit from an efficient worldwide network to increase their digital capabilities. MainOne positions itself as an essential mediator of digital transformation in West Africa by managing its operations with Equinix’s global reach. This makes it possible MainOne to hyperlink regional enterprises to global markets and move forward the region’s digital economy via creative and strong solutions.

    Equiano Cable MainOne West Africa Connectivity
    Jessie Chen

    Jessie is a community engagement specialist at BTW Media, having studied Integrated Marketing Communication at the Universiti Sains Malaysia. Contact her at jessie.chen@btw.media.

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