Our conversation with Brian Herlihy

Angela Stark

OPN talks with Brian Herlihy, continent connector and OFC/NFOEC keynote speaker.

 

imageBrian Herlihy, SEACOM CEO, at the groundbreaking in Maputo, Mozambique, on Nov. 5, 2008.

When Brian Herlihy founded SEACOM in 2006, his goal was to give East Africa its first-ever broadband access via fiber-optic cables. Three years later, the company began to provide fiber-optic bandwidth along the East Coast of Africa, linking South Africa to India and Europe via landing points in Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Djibouti and Egypt.

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