Safaricom reported a file excessive information site visitors final Sunday, on the peak of the finals matches of two main continental tournaments in each Europe and America- as many Kenyans opted to livestream the ties on the cellphones and tablets.
Disclosures from the telco point out that the information site visitors streaming by way of its community as Spain confronted England in Berlin hit 3.96 terabytes which was the very best because the agency was established two and a half many years in the past.
The telco says the milestone was achieved, because of its aggressive funding in additional cable networks.
It has helped scale back latency, which is the delay earlier than a switch of knowledge begins following an instruction for its switch.
“That is very thrilling for us, having no points and no complaints as Kenyans streamed good high quality soccer from abroad utilizing the undersea cable community through which we’ve got invested fairly closely,” acknowledged the corporate’s chief know-how and knowledge officer George Njuguna.
In its illustration of the milestone’s magnitude, Safaricom says one would want as much as 100,000 telephones, every with a capability to carry 128 gigabytes, to carry all the information that was streaming by way of its community on Sunday evening.
The telco additional says that as of the start of this yr, its whole worldwide information throughput was about 500 gigabytes.
This capability has since been elevated to 700 gigabytes.
At present, Safaricom boasts six cables which can be related to undersea networks, which is the biggest in comparison with different gamers within the area.
“Anytime we’re streaming video games, this data is coming from information centres which can be outdoors the continent more often than not.
“So meaning we’ve got to have an undersea cable community with sufficient capability to hold as a result of there are occasions and there are some networks that may’t stream on that,” acknowledged Mr Njuguna.
The agency says it has continued to improve its community websites in a bid to keep away from congestion throughout information periods.
The location cables are more and more being linked to content material information networks which have landed within the nation by corporations equivalent to Google, Meta, and X.
