70 km of dark fibre in Mombasa
Mombasa is where East Africa’s submarine cables come ashore. Our metro fibre joins the cable landing stations at Shanzu, Nyali and Seacom with the Icolo data centres and Telephone House, so a carrier or content provider can land in Kenya, reach the facilities that matter and carry traffic on to wherever 2Africa and EASSy land, from Somalia and South Africa to Europe, the Gulf and South Asia.
Nine routes, eight submarine cables
Every data centre and cable landing station on the network is reached by more than one route, and the submarine cables land at Shanzu and Nyali. Each route is numbered and named by the roads it follows. Hover over a route or cable in the key to pick it out.
Fibre routes
- 1Icolo 1 to Icolo 2, Beach Road
- 2Changamwe to Miritini via Magongo
- 3Dedan Kimathi to Ras Changamwe
- 4Telephone House to Lumumba Rd
- 5Icolo 2 to Telephone House via Links
- 6Telephone House to Seacom CLS, Dedan Kimathi
- 7Seacom CLS to Haile Selassie Rd
- 8Links Rd to Shanzu
- 9Nyali to Shanzu
Sites
- Cable landing station
- Data centre
- Exchange
Submarine cables landing
2Africa, north branch (Shanzu)2Africa, south branch (Shanzu)SEACOM (Nyali)TEAMS (Nyali)EASSy (Nyali)LION2 (Nyali)DARE1 (Nyali)PEACE (Nyali)Africa-1 (Nyali)
Every site an international operator needs to reach
Cable landing stations at one end, the Icolo data centres and Telephone House at the other, joined on fibre we own. A path between any two of them is one contract and one fault ticket.
| Site | What is there | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Shanzu CLS | Cable landing station: 2Africa | On network |
| Nyali CLS | Cable landing station: SEACOM, TEAMS, EASSy, LION2, DARE1, PEACE, Africa-1 | On network |
| Seacom CLS | Cable landing station | On network |
| Icolo 1 and Icolo 2 | Carrier-neutral data centres | On network |
| Telephone House | City exchange and hub | On network |
| Rabai | Extension towards the Rabai hub | Planned |
Services in Kenya are contracted through our local entity, Everest Production Corporation Kenya Limited.
Route files in KMZ format, splice points and fibre availability are shared under NDA with a quotation.
Fibre first, capacity where you need it
Dark fibre
- What it is
- Fibre pairs between any two sites on the network, lit with your own equipment
- Who buys it
- Carriers, cable consortia, content and cloud operators building their own presence in Mombasa
- What you control
- Optics, capacity and upgrades are yours to decide
Cable-to-data-centre paths
- Typical route
- Shanzu or Nyali landing station to Icolo or Telephone House
- Why it matters
- Your traffic reaches the interconnection points in Mombasa without a third-party tail circuit
- Diversity
- Every site has two routes in, for diverse paths between sites
Onward capacity
- Where it goes
- Any landing point on 2Africa and EASSy: down the coast to South Africa, north through the Red Sea to Europe, and east to the Gulf and South Asia
- Somalia
- Into Mogadishu through our own landing station
- Size
- Sized to your requirement
Three ways in through Mombasa
From the cable to the rack
Bring your capacity ashore at Shanzu or Nyali and reach a carrier-neutral data centre or the exchange on fibre you control.
Mombasa to Mogadishu, one operator
Hand over in Mombasa and reach Somalia on Dalkom’s subsea capacity, landing at our own station in Mogadishu.
As far as the cables go
Take capacity from Mombasa to any landing point on 2Africa or EASSy: Johannesburg for cloud and content, Europe, the Gulf or South Asia.
Send us the two ends
Tell us which sites you need to join and how you plan to light the fibre. We will come back with the route, the fibre available and pricing.