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  • Lagos Metro Data Centre Promotion Pricing: 100G Waves

    Lagos Metro Data Centre Promotion Pricing: 100G Waves

    Nigeria is one of Africa’s key telecom hubs along with Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, and South Africa. Lagos has many important data centers including OADC where the Equiano cable landing station is located, MDXI Equinix, Rack Centre, and Medallion. And Lagos has no metro dark fibre. Hence your success in this market depends on good lit…

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  • 200Gs Faster Available: Chikura/ Bandon- 1 Year Term

    200Gs Faster Available: Chikura/ Bandon- 1 Year Term

    If you can take it at the Chikura and Bandon CLS, MRC is $13.5K per 100G. From TY4 to 1 Wilshire pricing is $17.5K MRC. Good deal.

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  • African Cable Landing Station – Share Cable

    African Cable Landing Station – Share Cable

    This is the inside of the cable landing station of a recently built subsea network on Africa’s West Coast. The Share cable links Senegal to the chain of islands known as Cape Verde. The maddening confusion of jumper cables is a good example of total management ineptitude. African subsea cable projects rarely live up to…

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  • SMW6 Cable Will Shake Up The Competition

    SMW6 Cable Will Shake Up The Competition

    Number of Fibre Pairs: 12. Initial Capacity Design: 128 Tbps. Type of Cable System: Hybrid consortium/open cable model. Bharti owns 1 pair. Rest of capacity ownership is fixed percentage of lit.  RFS: 1Q2025. End-To-End Latency:130 ms RTD. Express route.  Customer Profile: General bandwidth and financial trading firms. Key Consortium Members: China Unicom, Singtel, Bharti, Orange, Telin,…

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  • The Structure Of Optical Fibre

    The Structure Of Optical Fibre

    A good primer on the physical structure of an optical fibre strand with some basic physics to give you insight into how it really works. Optical fibre is an ultra pure, high quality glass designed to carry infrared laser signals encoding bits, in other words, zeros and ones. It consists of a core which is…

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