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· The massive 2Africa Cable will be 37,000 kms long, connecting 23 countries. Of these, 16 countries are going to be from Africa
· These include Congo-Brazzaville, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti,
DRC, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, Somalia (landing at Mogadishu), Tanzania and South Africa
The massive 2Africa Cable will be 37,000 kms long, connecting 23 countries. Of these, 16 countries are going to be from Africa. These include Congo-Brazzaville, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, DRC, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, Somalia (landing at Mogadishu), Tanzania and South Africa.
The massive network will provide a nominal capacity of 180 Tbit/s, which is “significantly higher” than the capacity of all existing cables and has the ability to keep adding a great deal more capacity as and when needed.
2Africa will create a lot of digital capacity and a strong backbone. But what experts are wondering is whether Africa will have the
capacity to consume the bandwidth and feels that it would take two to three years to create such demand profiles. Importantly, 2Africa cable will integrate the new SDMI technology with optical switching and will be carried through a maximum of 16 pairs of fibres to provide for flexible bandwidth. The consortium members are Facebook, MTN, GlobalConnect, Orange etc.
