Liquid Intelligent Technologies is a pan-African digital infrastructure and services provider, part of Cassava Technologies (founded by Strive Masiyiwa through the Econet Group). The company operates Africa’s largest independent fibre network, spanning over 110,000 km of terrestrial and submarine routes across Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa, with connectivity extending to Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. Liquid provides wholesale and enterprise connectivity, cloud services, and cybersecurity solutions to carriers, service providers, and businesses across the continent.
In South Africa, Liquid Intelligent Technologies serves as a significant wholesale and enterprise infrastructure provider, competing and partnering with local operators to deliver fibre connectivity, cloud hosting, and managed services.
Infrastructure and Network
Liquid’s fibre network connects to multiple subsea cable systems on both Africa’s east and west coasts, and the company’s IP transit services connect its pan-African backbone to every major Internet Exchange in Southern and Eastern Africa. This infrastructure supports more than 50 global wholesale carriers and a growing enterprise customer base.
The company operates data centres in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Nairobi, Harare, and Kigali through its Africa Data Centres business, offering a combined potential of approximately 19,000 square metres of rack space and 78 MW of power capacity. These facilities provide colocation, hosting, and cloud infrastructure services for enterprise and wholesale customers.
Enterprise and Cloud Services
Cloud: Liquid is a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) and has achieved multiple Microsoft Solutions Partner designations across Azure, Modern Work, and Security. The company provides Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute connectivity from its African data centres, offering private, high-bandwidth connections to Azure cloud services. Liquid has also announced GPU-as-a-Service capabilities to support AI workloads across Africa.
Enterprise connectivity: Business Internet Access (BIA) fibre packages, SD-WAN, MPLS VPN, and dedicated internet access for enterprise customers requiring high-availability connectivity.
Security: Managed cybersecurity services including DDoS protection, firewall management, and security monitoring delivered through the company’s network and data centre infrastructure.
Why SA Resellers Should Understand Liquid
Liquid Intelligent Technologies occupies a unique position in the South African market as a large-scale infrastructure provider that is independent of the big three mobile operators (Vodacom, MTN, Telkom). For resellers and ISPs, Liquid’s wholesale fibre and IP transit services provide an alternative to Openserve and other local infrastructure providers, while its data centre and cloud capabilities offer enterprise hosting options outside the mobile operator ecosystem.
The company’s Microsoft partnership and Azure ExpressRoute connectivity are particularly relevant for resellers selling cloud migration and hybrid IT solutions to enterprise customers. Liquid’s pan-African network also provides unique value for customers with operations across multiple African countries, offering single-provider connectivity across the continent.
More information is available at liquid.tech.
About the Author
Mechelle Gindra
Mechelle Gindra is the managing editor and lead content strategist at Telecoms-Channel, South Africa's dedicated intelligence platform for telecoms resellers, ICT distributors, and channel partners. She oversees the editorial team's AI-assisted content production pipeline, ensuring vendor news, market analysis, and regulatory updates are accurate, timely, and actionable for the SA telecoms channel community. With deep expertise in the South African telecoms reseller ecosystem, Mechelle directs coverage of vendor partner programmes, ICASA regulatory developments, wholesale market dynamics, and channel business strategy. She is responsible for maintaining Telecoms-Channel's editorial standards, fact-checking processes, and corrections policy.
