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Subsea Cables RFS 2025 – 2Africa – Part 3
My best guess is that this extraordinary project goes fully live by the end of the first quarter of 2025. So far only the Kenya/Tanzania/South Africa segments have been activated and it is not clear whether they passing live traffic at this point. For more details, click on https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/2africa-cable-set-live-between-south-africa-and-kenya/ The 2Africa subsea network is based…
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Subsea Cables RFS 2025 – 2Africa – Part 2
2Africa Landings Luando, Angola Manama, Bahrain Moroni, Comoros Muanda, Democratic Republic of Congo Pointe-Noire, Congo Abidjan, Ivory Coast Djibouti City, Djibouti Port Said, Egypt Ras Ghareb, Egypt Suez, Egypt Zafarana, Egypt Marseille, France Libreville, Gabon Accra, Ghana Tympaki, Greece Mumbai, India Al Faw, Iraq Genoa, Italy Mombasa, Kenya Mtwapa, Kenya Kuwait City, Kuwait Mahajanga, Madagascar…
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Subsea Cables RFS 2025 – 2Africa – Part 1
The 2Africa cable is one of the most ambitious and important subsea projects ever undertaken. It spans a record 45,000 kilometers or 28,000 US miles. As the map shows, it extends from Mumbai to London with European landings, completely encircles Africa, and provides dense Middle Eastern coverage. 2Africa has a record 46 landings which enables…
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The Evolution Of Submarine Fibre Optic Cable Technology – Direct Optical Detection And Chromatic Dispersion
The era of subsea fibre optic technology began with a very simple, elegant approach. In the digital world we rely on binary code as the language for networks, computer processing, and storage. One advantage of the binary format is that any data can be represented by only two symbols, zero and one. This means faster…
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Burying Fibre Optic Subsea Cables In Shallow Waters: The How And Why
It is standard practice to bury subsea cables in shallow waters. This generally means the ocean or sea lying above the continental shelf. The shelf is really just that part of the continent that is submerged under water during the warm periods between the earth’s recurring ice ages. During interglacial periods like now the shelves…
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