Building Africas digital future Liquid Telecoms Rwanda Network
22 October 2014
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ICT is at the forefront of Rwandas transformation to a
knowledge- based economy Rwanda continues to be one of the
fastest-growing African countries in ICT Liquid Telecom has long
recognised the advantages of Rwandas central African location and
the countrys role as an internet service hub for east and central
Africa Internet penetration was 13% at the end of 2013, it is
expected to be at least 95% by the end of 2016 Liquid Telecom
Rwanda plans to spend US $34 million over the next two years,
laying thousands of kilometres of new fibre infrastructure across
the country Fibre Infrastructure Investment
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Supports our East Africa Fibre Ring, provides consistently high
speeds, continuous uptime across region between Kenya, Uganda,
Rwanda, Tanzania and back into Kenya Rwanda Backbone Fibre
Routes
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A new 40km high capacity Metro fibre ring has been implemented
This will support the deployment of Liquid Telecoms new
Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Networks (GPON) / Fibre-to-the-Home
(FTTH) infrastructure build Progressive projects to upgrade and
enhance existing fibre and copper network Kigali Metro/Access
Network
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Five new GPON / FTTH areas covering 5,000 homes and business
currently being planned High quality ducting and fibre cable
components used in installation of FTTH infrastructure Future
deployment proposals to include the existing EWSA electricity poles
to install aerial fibre cables to the home GPON Deployment Kagarama
Kibagabaga Kagugu Gisozi Nyarutarama
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The first new FTTH area in Kagugu is currently being built,
with over 16km of new buried duct and fibre cables being laid,
which will serve over 800 homes with download speeds between 5 -
100Mbps Kagugu GPON
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New Network Deployment in Kagugu
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New FTTH Services in Rwanda FTTH services will be available
from Liquid Telecom Rwandas retail business Fibre cables terminated
into customers premise Between 5 - 100Mbps download speed, uncapped
and unlimited Provides Wi-Fi in your home Ready to carry ipidi TV,
high definition and live streaming Great for real-time online
gaming Upload and download large files easily Supports multiple
devices, all online at the same time
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East Africa Data Centre is the first custom built data centre
in the region and the largest in east Africa by far. The world
class, carrier neutral facilities offer 99.982% guaranteed
availability although have been running at 100% since its
commercial launch in 2012.