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Europe. Increased global demand for connectivity is resulting Ocean zone, particularly Réunion and Mayotte.” Mr. Wu Qianjun,
in congestion on the busy route. In addition, Africa has the Chief Executive Officer, PEACE Cable International, said, “The
fastest-growing youth population in the world and is a market PEACE project has been progressed very well and the equipment
particularly ripe for investment because of the rapidly growing manufacturing has been achieved more than 60%. The system
number of Internet users and a corresponding increased demand will be ready for service on time based on its schedule. We are
for connectivity. When complete in 2021, the PEACE cable system confident that PEACE will provide low-cost capacity for those fast
will provide the shortest and most direct data route from North growing regions and enhance the routing diversity in Asia, Africa
Asia to Europe, combined with exceptionally low latency which is and Europe.”
vitally important for a wide array of commercial and consumer
applications. The backbone of the project will interconnect
Pakistan, Djibouti, Egypt, Kenya and France, providing critical
interconnections to key Asian, European, and African economic
corridors, with additional planned landing points and extensions.
Mr. Marc Halbfinger, Chief Executive Officer, PCCW Global, said,
“Our collaboration with Orange is a critically important step
towards bringing PEACE online and we trust the capabilities and
vast experience of their teams in France to provide a successful
and timely delivery of the European leg of the project. Orange has
vast experience in submarine cable infrastructure development.
So we are confident that Orange will not only successfully provide
the necessary cable infrastructure in France, but also benefit
from being one of the first major users of the PEACE cable to
connect important and growing traffic from Africa to Europe.”
Mr. Jérôme Barré, Chief Executive Officer, Orange, said, “For
Orange, PEACE is a major investment as it will provide greater
route diversity, improved connection security and guaranteed
support for increased capacity across all regions in the Indian

PCCW Global and DCConnect Extend Global Reach with SDI Collaboration

PCCW Global and DCConnect have entered into a technology and cloud vendor in China. The technology collaboration will
collaboration that will enable both Console Connect and enable DCConnect’s clients to interconnect with the Console
DCConnect customers to seamlessly leverage network services Connectplatform in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Los Angeles -
from either service provider, including providing DCConnect providing access to a truly global network. The API integration
customers with on-demand access to PCCW Global’s extensive allows users to run private and secure virtual connections across
international network footprint. PCCW Global’s Console Connectis both networks, as well as being able to provision, upgrade, and
a game-changer for business, making the process of connecting monitor on-demand services. Both platforms enable users to
to cloud-based business-critical applications and geographically interconnect and purchase flexible services on a daily, weekly, or
distributed offices, partners and clients simple, predictable and monthly basis - only paying for services which are available to
secure. Spanning over 37 countries, the Console Connectplatform be used with no lock-in contracts or minimum usage criteria. Mr.
enables users to purchase on-demand connectivity in more than Billy Fung, Chief Technology Officer, DCConnect, said, “DCConnect
100 global data centers and to all major cloud on-ramp partners, is excited to establish a two-way integration with PCCW Global.
including AWS Direct Connect, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Oracle We look forward to enabling our customers to make use of PCCW
Cloud, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud. DCConnect Global’s extensive and robust IP backbone and global subsea
is the leading software-defined enterprise and carrier platform in network, providing instant access, with Quality of Service, to
China. DCConnect’s coverage includes every major data center many markets around the world. Similarly, we also look forward to
serving PCCW Global customers with our own extensive network
resources throughout China.” Mr. Michael Glynn, Global Vice
President of Digital Automated Innovation, PCCW Global, said, “The
interconnect collaboration with DCConnect allows our customers
to access more data centers directly from our platform. We are
building one of the largest SDN wholesale ecosystems worldwide
for carriers, network providers, and other SDN providers, enabling
them to access our extensive redundant global backbone on-
demand, while extending their coverage and service offering to
support their own customer needs, by interconnecting into our
platform at any of our on-net data centers.”

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