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On 23 July 2009, the 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) cable began operations, providing the eastern and southern African countries of Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, and South Africa with high-speed Internet connectivity to Europe and Asia.
It forms part of the SAT-3/WASC/SAFE cable system, where the SAFE cable links South Africa to Asia. The SAT-3/WASC/SAFE system provides a path between Asia and Europe for telecommunications traffic that is an alternative to the cable routes that pass through the Middle East , such as SEA-ME-WE 3 and FLAG .
SPIN (or South Pacific Islands Network) was a proposed submarine communications cable system that would run between New Zealand and Tahiti, connecting a number of South Pacific island countries. It would have been 6,500 km (4,039 mi) long and have a 64x10 Gbit/s capacity.
Running a total of 15,000 km from Portugal along the African west coast, Equiano will be one of the largest cables serving Africa, with 12 fibre pairs delivering a total of 144 Tbit/s of capacity. [14] WIOCC is a key partner in Equiano, landing the cable in Lagos, Nigeria, and owning a full fibre pair on the system. [15]
The West Africa Cable System (WACS) is a submarine communications cable linking South Africa with the United Kingdom along the west coast of Africa that was constructed by Alcatel-Lucent. The cable consists of four fibre pairs [ 1 ] and is 14,530 km in length, linking from Yzerfontein in the Western Cape of South Africa to London in the United ...
Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa: In 2013, PRASA announced plans to lease excess fibre capacity. [70] Telkom: Telkom is the dominant operator and has the largest fibre network in South Africa, covering approximately 143,000 km as per the 2011 annual report. [71] [72]
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