Digital Infrastructure Company Equinix Announces Its Expansion Into Africa
Digital Infrastructure Company Equinix Announces Its Expansion Into Africa. Digital Infrastructure Company Equinix has announced that it is expanding into Africa, the company has completed its deal to acquire West African data center and connectivity solutions provider MainOne for an enterprise value of US$320M, marking the beginning of its expansion into the African continent.
The completion of this acquisition augments Equinix’s long-term strategy to become a leading African carrier-neutral digital infrastructure company by being able to bring a full range of transformative technologies and connectivity to Nigeria, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire. This acquisition will extend Platform Equinix into West Africa, giving organizations based inside and outside of Africa access to global and regional markets.
Nigeria has both the largest population and the largest economy of any country in Africa, with approximately 142 million active internet subscribers. Home to new innovative digital ecosystems in fintech and content and digital media, it has great opportunity for expansion of digital services.
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix enables today’s businesses to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.
With its subsea cable, growing metropolitan infrastructure and data centre ecosystem, MainOne is uniquely positioned to accelerate the development of digital infrastructure in the region. It’s world class submarine cable system running down the coast of West Africa, state of the art IP NGN network, growing regional and metro terrestrial fiber optic networks, and data center facilities enable services for businesses needing digital access in West Africa.
