Michelo Moono on Driving Digital Transformation Through National Connectivity

So let's move into the field now.

Fiber infrastructure is often unseen by the public, yet it powers so much of the digital lives.

Why is fiber connectivity so important in today's economy?

Well, fiber connectivity, as you rightly said, I think very few people they see it and yet it plays a pivotal role in today's modern digital economy.

Now, if you are to look, maybe if you are to allow me, if you look at where we are coming from, I remember for a fact that Some companies had backbones connecting different towns between Osaka and Kitwe, and the capacity that they had was only about 2 megabits per second.

And this was about 10 years ago, right? But with time, what has happened is that there has been a growth in terms of data consumption.

With a growth in data consumption, it requires technologies.

that are able to carry this capacity.

So now, optical fiber is one of the technology and which is foundational in modern technology because it's able to provide high bandwidth to be able to carry traffic for what organizations are actually generating.

If you are to see what is happening in most of organizations right now, everywhere every department is creating data which are supposed to be transmitted now where we are at zambia we find that we are a land locked country and this data is supposed to be transmitted to the outside world and most of the time we are downloading and using the interconnects that we have.

So for us to bring this huge data, we need high bandwidth and optic fiber is one such technology.

So it will bring in the capacity, the speed that we need to bring this data.

And also for those who are in gaming, because we're not doing gaming, we can be playing with somebody who is in the USA, somebody who is in Australia.

So you need a huge pipe with low latency and fiber just does it.

So you find that this is a critical infrastructure that we need to ensure that we are able to deliver what customers are looking for.