Video Connect, Pci Dss, Fiber Optic Cable

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via a high-quality, global delivery platform, backed by a world-class submarine fiber optic cable and a global partner network.

The Video Connect service provides fast and reliable content delivery services for all scales of customer ranging from small video editing firms to high end film production houses. MainOne provides the bandwidth required to transmit digital video irrespective of the quality or size using the world’s most advanced, dedicated purpose-built video network solution that provides connectivity to key destinations, as well as premium quality and high levels of reliability, all available on flexible commercial terms.

Designed to facilitate the transfer of video content from production companies and distributors (content owners) to broadcasters all over the world as well as enhancing international broadcasters reach into the local market, MainOne’s Video Connect provides an alternative for media-oriented services, which offers greater flexibility and capacity over traditional technologies.

MainOne’s premier Tier III Data Center, MDX-I, has become the first Tier III Data Center operator ...
... in Nigeria to achieve both Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and ISO 27001:2013 certifications. The PCI DSS certifications ensure the Data Center’s compliance to globally accepted standards on Customer Data Security as well as commitment towards the security and protection of the company’s information assets.

MainOne’s Data Center was certified following a comprehensive ISO27001 audit carried out by British Standard Institution (BSI) group, a business standards company that helps organizations all over the world make excellence a habit. The PCI DSS assessment was conducted by Digital Jewels Limited, a PCI DSSQSA and an Information Value Chain Company which also provided end-to-end support in preparing the Data Centre for certification to both standards.

The PCI DSS audits measured the facilities at the Data Center according to several strict criteria including physical access controls as well as information security policies, procedures and infrastructure. Funke Opeke, chief executive officer, noted that the ISO 27001 and PCI DSScertifications consolidates the company’s investment in critical infrastructure and processes to grow West Africa’s Digital Economy.

“We are delighted to be the first commercial Tier III Data Center in Nigeria to assure our customers of both PCI DSS and ISO 27001:2013 certifications. We have continued to see an increase in the number of payment card operators, and many of these are our customers. Our ability to ensure security of their customer data is attested to by these PCI DSS certifications and ensures we provide an equivalent level of security as the best in-house bank data centers”, she said.

Three years into the landing of submarine cables also known as fibre optic cablesin Nigeria from separate cable operators, Nigeria is yet to make maximum use of the cable capacities. MainOne, one of the fiber optic cable operators, stressed that Nigeria was yet to utilise 5 per cent of its cable capacities, and that the same was applicable to other cable operatorslike Glo 1, and MTN WACS.

Chief Executive Officer of Main One Cable Company, Mrs. Funke Opeke, who disclosed this in Lagos, lamented a situation where Nigeria has more than enough broadband capacities from several submarine cables at the shores of the country, yet less than 10 per cent of the total broadband capacities from the threecable operators was being utilized in a country of over 160 million persons.

ll these broadband capacities, Opeke said, remained low on the shores of the country, with less than 10 per cent utilisation. She however said the fiber optic cable operatorswere able to reduce cost of bandwidth in the wholesale market, but that the retail market, which affects the consumers directly, still operate at high cost of bandwidth.

Comparing Nigeria with other African countries, Opeke said Kenya and Tanzania have gone far in Internet access penetration because the government of those countries built a nationwide infrastructure fiber optic cable backbone and allowed the private sector to run it at a determined low cost and that every Internet Service Provider (ISPs) has equal access to available broadband capacities.

In five years, MainOne has invested over $300m in fiber optic cableinfrastructure in West Africa towards improving internet penetration in West Africa.MainOne’s world class fiber optic submarine cable system running down the coast of West Africa, state of the art IP NGN network, growing regional and metro terrestrial fiber optic networks, and data center facilities enable it provide broadband and network solutions for businesses in West Africa.

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