Category: Undersea Cables

SEACOM submarine cable Price and availability check The invisible infrastructure of global connectivity SEACOM was Africa’s first submarine broadband cable when it went into operation on July 23, 2009. It connects East Africa and South Africa with Europe via India and fundamentally changed the continent’s connectivity landscape: within months, bandwidth prices in the region fell…

Equiano submarine cable Price and availability check The invisible infrastructure of global connectivity The Equiano submarine cable is a cable system financed and operated by Google that connects Europe directly with West Africa and South Africa. Named after the Nigerian-British abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, the cable is symbolic of the growing digital connection between Europe and…

FLAG FEA (Fibre Optic Link Around the Globe) submarine cable Price and availability check The invisible infrastructure of global connectivity FLAG FEA (Fibre-Optic Link Around the Globe / Far East America) was the longest single cable system in the world when it went into operation in November 1997. It connects the United Kingdom with Japan…

ACE submarine cable Price and availability check The invisible infrastructure of global connectivity The ACE (Africa Coast to Europe) submarine cable is one of the most important cable systems for the digital connection of West Africa to Europe. With landing points in 24 countries along the West African coast, ACE opens up some of the…

2Africa submarine cable Price and availability check The invisible infrastructure of global connectivity The 2Africa submarine cable is one of the most ambitious cable projects in the world and will be the longest submarine cable system in the world when completed. A joint project between Meta (Facebook), China Mobile, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, STC, Telecom Egypt,…

AAE-1 submarine cable Price and availability check The invisible infrastructure of global connectivity The AAE-1 (Asia Africa Europe 1) submarine cable is one of the longest submarine cable systems in the world, connecting Asia, the Middle East and Europe on a single continuous route. With landing points in over a dozen countries along the route,…