Google has announced Equiano, a new private subsea cable which will start in western Europe and run along the West Coast of Africa, between Portugal and Cape Town in South Africa
The cable will have branching units along the way that can be used to extend connectivity to additional African countries. The first branch is expected to land in Nigeria.
The Equiano cable is state-of-the-art infrastructure based on space-division multiplexing (SDM) technology. It will offer approximately 20 times more network capacity than the last cable built to serve this region. Equiano will be the first subsea cable to incorporate optical switching at the fibre-pair level, rather than using the traditional approach of wavelength-level switching.
Good news for gamers who use EU based gaming servers as I do. This could be live for South Africa already by 2021.
#Equiano #fibre
#^Google to build subsea cable from Europe to Cape Town
Google has introduced Equiano – new private subsea cable that will connect South Africa with Europe at speeds 20 times higher than other cables.
source https://gadgeteer.co.za/node/3315
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