- Source: 2Africa
2Africa is an international submarine telecommunications cable that circumnavigates the coastline of Africa to interconnect Europe and the Middle East.
The system will be one of the first to use spatial division multiplexing (SDM1) and has a design capacity of 180 Tbps across 16 fiber pairs. When complete, 2Africa will be the largest subsea cable in the world, at 45,000 kilometers long, connecting 46 cable landing stations across 33 countries.
2Africa passes from Europe through the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean, and then back into Europe via the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
The system is to be constructed by Alcatel Submarine Networks and is intended to be operational in Q4 2024.
Cable ownership
2Africa is funded by a consortium consisting of eight members, namely:
Meta Platforms
China Mobile
MTN Group
Orange S.A.
Saudi Telecom Company
Telecom Egypt
Vodafone Group Plc
West Indian Ocean Cable Company
= Open access model
=The consortium has mandated that every operator of 2Africa must provide effective access to the international capacity at reasonable prices and on non-discriminatory terms. Cable landing station operators can be penalized and even completely disconnected from the 2Africa system if they fail to provide access to capacity at their landing points.
Landing points and operators
In September 2021, 2Africa announced a new segment of the cable called '2Africa PEARLS', which extends to the Persian Gulf, India and Pakistan.
See also
List of international submarine communications cables
References
External links
Official website
Press Release with Map on Businesswire
Facebook Engineering 2Africa page
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- 2Africa
- West Indian Ocean Cable Company
- Iberian Peninsula
- Cable landing point
- European Union submarine internet cables
- Internet in South Africa
- AAE-1
- Duynefontein
- List of international submarine communications cables
- Internet in Pakistan
