Landing of South Atlantic Undersea Cable in Brazil signals new chapter in Africa-America’s Telecoms
February 22, 2018
LUANDA, Angola, 22 February 2018, -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Angola Cables, a telecommunications multinational, has reported that the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) has made landfall at Fortaleza on the Brazilian coast.
SACS makes landfall: The South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) between Africa and South America makes landfall at Fortaleza on the Brazilian coast.
Company CEO, António Nunes said that the arrival and installation of SACS on the Brazilian coast was “an important strategic milestone for the company, Angola and Africa as it will be the first direct link between the Americas and the African continent, offering a faster routing with higher capacity.”
Now entering the final phase of completion, SACS is expected to be fully operational by the third quarter of 2018. The undersea cable is one of the most advanced submarine telecommunications systems and will have initial capacity of 40Tbps (100Gbps x 100 wavelength x 4 pairs of fibre).
“Once SACS has been fully commissioned, we will see a significant improvement in communications and content sharing between Angola, African countries and the Americas. With SACS, the delay in transporting digital content, known as latency, will be reduced fivefold, from the current 350 thousandths of a second to just over 60 thousandths of a second.”
Celebrating the milestone: Moroni Torgan: Deputy Mayor of Fortaleza, Manuel Homem: Angolan Secretary of State for Information and Technology, António Nunes: CEO of Angola Cables, Inácio Arruda: Secretary of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Ceará, Camilo Santana: Governor of Ceará, César Ribeiro: Secretary of Economic Development of Ceará
Distributed by African Media Agency (AMA) for Angola Cables.
Media Contact:
Rick Robertson
Atmosphere Communications for Angola Cables
Tel: +27 (0) 83 4482484
Email: rick@atmosphere.co.za
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