{"id":2979,"date":"2013-06-05T08:51:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T06:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.ekinops.com\/news\/news\/liquid-telecom-and-ekinops-receive-award-for-innovation-from-global-telecoms-business-magazine"},"modified":"2026-10-20T20:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:46:07","slug":"liquid-telecom-et-ekinops-recompenses-pour-leur-innovation-par-le-magazine-dentreprise-telecoms-mondial","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/news\/customers\/liquid-telecom-and-ekinops-receive-award-for-innovation-from-global-telecoms-business-magazine","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Telecom et EKINOPS re\u00e7oivent un prix d\u2019innovation du magazine Global Telecoms Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

These prestigious awards, organized by the much-respected GTB magazine, celebrate the joint work of vendors and operators in innovative projects that better serve the telecom industry\u2019s end customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liquid Telecom and EKINOPS picked up the award for their joint work in building Africa\u2019s longest single span fiber links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GTB Winner in 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Liquid Telecom is the leading wholesale carrier in Africa. It has built Africa\u2019s largest fiber network, which runs from the north of Uganda to Cape Town. In total, its award-winning Pan-African fiber network spans more than 13,000 kilometers across Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho and South Africa. Liquid\u2019s fiber network is the first to cross country borders and covers Africa\u2019s fastest-growing economies where no fixed network has existed before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typical long-haul optical networks require an amplifier site every 100 kilometers in order to amplify the signal. In rural Africa, with its wide, open spaces where the distance between towns can be more than 400 kilometers, this is a major problem. The costs in building an amplifier site every 100 kilometers, including the power generator, site security, and roads to access the site are enormous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Debbie Rowe\/Global Telecoms Business<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Researchers at Liquid Telecom and EKINOPS worked together to develop pioneering and innovative techniques for increasing the distance of fiber links. In December 2012 the first commercial link went live. At 310 kilometers, it is the longest fiber link in Africa and a vital part of the fiber which connects Harare to Victoria Falls via Hwange (around 585 kilometers). Since then another 10 long-distance links (more than 300 kilometers) have gone live \u2013 and more are planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nic Rudnick, CEO of Liquid Telecom, said: \u201cCongratulations to everyone who worked on this project which has set the standard for the industry. At Liquid Telecom we firmly believe that we are helping to create Africa\u2019s digital future by investing in technology which is why, unlike others, we choose to build and own our networks wherever possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cEKINOPS technology allows carriers to deploy long-haul networks with ultra-long spans and we are very proud to win the GTB award with Liquid Telecom for this project,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> said Jonathan Amir, EKINOPS vice president of Sales in EMEA. \u201cWe estimate that Liquid has so far reduced the number of amplification sites from 16 to 5, which translates into major cost savings on both CAPEX and OPEX.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Le travail pionnier r\u00e9alis\u00e9 par Liquid Telecom et son partenaire technologique EKINOPS (Euronext Paris : EKI) a \u00e9t\u00e9 nomm\u00e9 \u201c Meilleure innovation en mati\u00e8re d\u2019infrastructure de r\u00e9seau fixe \u201d aux Global Telecoms Business (GTB) Innovation Awards de cette ann\u00e9e.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2941,"template":"","press-releases-category":[87],"class_list":["post-2979","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","press-releases-category-customers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/2979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/2979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3683,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/2979\/revisions\/3683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"press-releases-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases-category?post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}