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#HostingJournalist #Telecom Seacom has opened a high-capacity terrestrial route between Nairobi and Kampala, adding 1Tbps of active capacity on one of East Africa’s key internet corridors. The link connects Nairobi, Kisumu and Kampala, with expansion headroom to 30Tbps, improving inland access from Mombasa’s subsea cable landing stations for carriers, enterprises, cloud platforms and digital services. This is not a flashy infrastructure story. It is the kind that determines whether other digital stories can function. The Nairobi-Kampala corridor carries traffic for a region where internet demand is rising across finance, telecoms, public services, cloud access, mobile data, e-commerce and cross-border business. When that route is weak, the effects are not abstract. Applications slow down. Backup paths get expensive. Service providers lose room to grow. Banks and enterprises build around limitations rather than demand. Seacom is upgrading an established route rather than opening a new one. That distinction is important. East Africa already has subsea capacity landing at Mombasa. The harder question is how efficiently and reliably that capacity moves inland. The company says the new DWDM-based route supports 1GE, 10GE, 100GE and 400GE interfaces. It is built to scale from the initial 1Tbps to 30Tbps as demand increases. Corridor Economics The commercial case is straightforward. More bandwidth between Kenya and Uganda gives operators a stronger base for wholesale capacity, enterprise connectivity, cloud access and regional backhaul. It also creates a better route into neighboring markets including Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan. Latency figures matter here. Seacom says the route delivers about 7 milliseconds to Nairobi and 13 milliseconds to Mombasa. That is relevant for financial transactions, cloud workloads, enterprise applications and real-time services where delay affects user experience or operational reliability. But capacity alone is rarely the full problem. Regional connectivity depends on rights of way, fiber maintenance, border crossings, route diversity, pricing, local handoffs and the quality of access networks at either end. A strong backbone can improve the market, but customers still need service providers to package it into usable, resilient offerings. Seacom says it is controlling more of the route itself. For buyers, that could mean clearer accountability and faster response when something breaks. Could. Customers will want service-level evidence, not just network diagrams. The company’s CTO, David Kariuki, described the project as strengthening a route that already plays a central role in regional connectivity. That is the right way to frame it. This is less about invention than reinforcement. Resilience Is The Point The technical detail that deserves attention is redundancy. Seacom has implemented Automated Switched Optical Network technology, allowing traffic…