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The MÉTISS consortium comprises Canal+ Télécom, CEB Fibernet, Emtel, Zeop, and SRR (SFR) Telma. The MÉTISS cable lands in Amanzimtoti and is backhauled by Liquid Telecoms to Teraco’s data centre in Durban (DB1). ![MÉTISS Cable](https://www.teraco.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-METISS-1024x538.jpg) MÉTISS consortium members have infrastructure in both the [Teraco Durban (DB1)](https://www.teraco.co.za/data-centre-locations/durban/) and [Johannesburg (JB1)](https://www.teraco.co.za/data-centre-locations/johannesburg/) data centre facilities. The Indian Ocean Islands have direct access to Teraco’s ecosystem of over 300 networks, 130 IT service providers, 50 global content providers, and the key global cloud providers, says Michele McCann, Head of Interconnection and Peering at Teraco. The availability of a new cable servicing the Indian Ocean Islands region widens the addressable market for content and cloud providers in South Africa. It adds new resilience to the existing telecommunications infrastructure. MÉTISS provides global telecoms organisations, multinationals and enterprises with interests in the region with the reliable services and capacities to empower their digital strategies. Situated on Durban’s north coast, Teraco DB1 is a strategic interconnection hub on the African subsea cable map with access to MÉTISS and the cable systems of Seacom and EASSy that are already accessible from the facility. Teraco’s DB1 facility is connected to the JB1 Campus in Isando, Johannesburg, through a wide choice of carriers, via diverse regional fibre routes. It will allow clients to increase the number of partners they connect to and expand their reach into new markets. Teraco’s DB1 facility offers clients secure colocation and interconnection services, and the ability to leverage Teraco’s digital hubs in DB1 and JB1 directly. “The cable brings connectivity across regions that were previously hard to reach. Through Teraco, access to this cable is an interconnect away. In keeping with our tagline, ‘The world connects here’, we are very proud to play a pivotal role in the success of this cable system,” says McCann. [Peering](https://www.teraco.co.za/platform-teraco/africa-peering/) at Africa’s largest Internet exchange, [NAPAfrica](http://www.napafrica.net), is now also possible for the island region and brings many benefits such as reduced latency, network fault tolerance, reliable exchange of traffic, increased routing control, and improved network performance. Interconnection and peering successfully addresses a growing need for more bandwidth but at the lowest possible latency. This also needs to be done cost-effectively. The MÉTISS cable system will enable further interconnection within the Indian Ocean Islands region and the growth of its digital economy. 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