International Telecoms Week, MD and Luanda, Angola, May 7 2025: Angola Cables is proud to announce that it is now a Premium Wholesale Reseller Partner of DE-CIX, the world’s leading Internet Exchange (IX) operator. As a Premium Wholesale Reseller Partner, Angola Cables will leverage DE-CIX’s extensive interconnection ecosystem to enhance its service offerings, providing businesses and enterprises with seamless access to one of the largest and most advanced IX platforms globally. This collaboration underscores Angola Cables’ commitment to driving digital transformation and expanding its reach in the international connectivity market.
According to Executive Board Member, Rui Faria, Angola Cables has been in strategic partnership with DE-CIX since 2014. “Over the past decade this partnership has been strengthened by a mutual intent to improve global interconnectivity and providing the most efficient premium connectivity access and seamless peering experience for the customers we serve in Africa and Brazil,” notes Faria.
“Angola Cables and DE-CIX have been working together successfully for many years, which is now also reflected in their Premium-Partner status,” says Mareike Jacobshagen, Head of Global Business Partner Programme at DE-CIX. “Together, we are driving forward the business and thus the solutions that companies need to network, peer and interconnect.”
In addition, Angola Cables is one of around 1,100 networks that are directly connected to DE-CIX Frankfurt, one of the largest Internet Exchanges in the world with a data volume of over 45 Exabytes per year, as of 2024.
Today, Angola Cables is more than a leading Angolan operator, being internationally recognized as a major player operating in the ICT sector and providing customized connectivity solutions. With over 6.000 peering agreements, Angola Cables now ranks among the top 23 Internet Service Providers in the world and the #1 interconnected operator in Africa. Its IP network has proven to be robust, resilient and offers a value proposition in terms of low latency routings and directs interconnections with the major Tier 1 operators across the world.
“Integration with DE-CIX strengthens the value proposition of Angola Cables’ and our TelCables subsidiaries by enabling interconnection with Tier 1 carriers, cloud providers, and OTT platforms, ensuring the lowest latency and the high resilience of our IP network,’’ says Faria.
“Together with DE-CIX, we continue to reduce digital barriers and promote a more efficient and accessible internet, connecting businesses and users to the world’s leading content sources,” concluded Faria.
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About DE-CIX
DE-CIX, pronounced DEE-KICKS [dˈi:-kˈɪks], is the world’s leading operator of Internet Exchanges (IXs). Founded in 1995, the company is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2025. DE-CIX offers its interconnection services in 60 locations in Europe, Africa, North and South America, the Middle East, and Asia. Today, accessible from data centers in over 600 cities world-wide, DE-CIX interconnects thousands of network operators (carriers), Internet service providers (ISPs), content providers and enterprise networks from more than 100 countries, and offers peering, cloud, and other interconnection services. DE-CIX Frankfurt is one of the largest Internet Exchanges in the world, with a data volume of over 45 Exabytes per year (as of 2024) and close to 1100 connected networks. Close to 250 colleagues from over 35 different nations form the foundation of the DE-CIX success story in Germany and around the world. Since the beginning of the commercial Internet, DE-CIX has had a decisive influence – in a range of leading global bodies, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) – on co-defining guiding principles for the Internet of the present and the future. As the operator of critical IT infrastructure, DE-CIX bears a great responsibility for the seamless, fast, and secure data exchange between people, enterprises, and organizations at its locations around the globe.
Further information at www.de-cix.net
About Angola Cables
Angola Cables is an internationally established ICT and digital solutions and network services provider. The company specializes in connectivity solutions for the wholesale market and offers tailored digital services and solutions across multiple industries, including Cloud resources for the corporate enterprise sector.
Known for its innovation, Angola Cables operates a robust global backbone network, providing access to major IXPs, Tier I operators, and global content providers. With more than 30 PoPs and connections to 930 interconnected Data Centres and 6000 peering agreements, traffic over its international network is more than 18 500 Tbps. The company has its own submarine cable network spanning over 33,000 kilometres (WACS, SACS, and MONET) and extends its services to over 50,000 kilometres through partner cables, connecting the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
Additionally, the company operates two world-class Data Centres, AngoNAP Fortaleza in Brazil and AngoNAP Luanda in Angola. Angola Cables also manages PIX in Brazil and AngonIX in Angola – one of the leading internet traffic exchange points in Africa that directly connects to over 21 IXPs worldwide. With a significant international presence, Angola Cables is expanding its operations into strategic markets such as Brazil, South Africa, the United States and Nigeria. The company promotes intercontinental interconnection, driving digital and economic development, and ranks among the top 25 internet service providers in the world today.
*The Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) 2023
For more information, visit the website: www.angolacables.co.ao.
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