Nairobi — After the recent launch of an internet exchange point in Mombasa, AccessKenya has announced that it will lay its own metro fibre infrastructure to reap from growing data traffic to the city.

The internet service provider's managing director Mr Jonathan Somen said the firm is laying a metro fibre network to cover most buildings in Mombasa.

Deliver high speeds

He said AccessKenya Group offices the town will be connected to Seacom and Teams before the network is rolled out to other buildings.

"The network, to be initially laid around parts of Mombasa Island will use full ring topology for uptime which will allow us to deliver high broadband speeds and redundancy to our customers," Mr Somen said.

In ring topology, the network is build in form of a ring which ensures that if one part of the network gets cut, traffic is rerouted to the opposite side of the ring meaning no downtime for clients.

Once the broken part is repaired, traffic is rerouted back to the original side of the ring.

The technology ensures 100 per cent uptime for all clients on the network.

The internet firm has appointed Enterprise Génèrale Malta Forrest (EGMF), as the contractor to manage the digging and laying of the physical infrastructure of the fibre network.

AccessKenya runs a 140 kilometres of metro fibre network covering over 250 buildings in Nairobi.