SEACOM submarine cable

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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 by up to 90 percent. SEACOM was also the first privately financed, carrier-independent cable system in the region. The system is now fully operational and directly supplies carriers, ISPs and enterprise customers in six countries. SEACOM is already planning the next generation with SEACOM 2.0: a 25,000 km system with 48 fiber pairs designed for AI workloads and next generation networks.

Route & connection

SEACOM connects Mtunzini (South Africa) via Maputo (Mozambique), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Mombasa (Kenya) and Djibouti with Mumbai (India) and Marseille (France). On the Egypt-India section, the system shares physical segments with the Tata-TGN Eurasia system. The total length is around 17,000 kilometers.

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Technology & capacity

SEACOM was built by SubCom and has 2 fiber pairs with EDFA amplifiers. Several capacity upgrades have continuously increased the usable bandwidth.

2 fiber pairs: total design capacity 12 Tbit/s, currently lit approx. 4.2 Tbit/s after multiple upgrades
EDFA amplifiers: Over 150 underwater optical amplifiers along the entire length of the system
Mixed fiber types: Dispersion-shifted and non-zero dispersion-shifted glass fiber
First private African cable: carrier-independent, operated without a state consortium structure

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SAVECALL as access to SEACOM

SEACOM is a privately managed system without state consortium interests. This makes the negotiations more direct and the structures more flexible than with traditional carrier consortia. SAVECALL makes targeted use of this advantage: We negotiate capacity on an equal footing with the operator, know the available capacity models and provide full price benchmarking against EASSY, 2Africa and other East Africa options. For companies with operations in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique or South Africa, SEACOM is often the most efficient solution. SAVECALL assesses this in the context of your overall network needs and then sources the right carrier on the right terms.

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