Glo 1 marks 8 years of connectivity

Telecommunication services provider, Globacom, has celebrated the eighth year of uninterrupted connectivity for Glo 1, the international submarine cable, which is solely owned by the company.

Glo 1 has, since 2016, not experienced any disruption in its operations, thereby ensuring uninterrupted connectivity for individual and corporate customers, who derive their Internet requirements from the network.

The company said in a statement that Glo1 submarine fibre cable infrastructure was recently upgraded to ensure maximum utilisation and enhanced service delivery.

Globacom exclusively financed the entire end-to-end architecture of Glo 1, including access systems, the national fibre-optic backbone, the international cable systems, international gateways and data centre services.

Globacom’s presence in several countries and its fibre optic networks entail that it can offer last mile and domestic long haul services to Glo 1 customers. Earlier this year,   when most submarine cables in Nigeria and West Africa experienced fibre cuts, which caused widespread internet downturn, Glo 1 was unaffected and was about the only source of succour for Internet users in the country.

Glo 1 successfully powered financial institutions, internet service providers, and data consumers throughout the period.  Industry watchers posited  that Glo 1 international submarine Cable’s resilient architecture  and durability made the  cable impregnable to disruption.

Glo 1 connects directly to London with lowest latency, thus guaranteeing  ultra fast and reliable Internet connectivity. Latency refers to the length of time it takes for data to travel from one point to another across a network.