SACS - the first 6200 km South Atlantic Cable System
The SACS submarine cable that will be built by NEC will connect Luanda, Angola to Fortaleza, Brazil. There it will be connected to the MONET cable that is currently being laid to connect Sao Paulo with Miami.
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MONET:
In Luanda the cable will interconnect with the WACS - West Africa Cable System, which connects South Africa and other african countries to Great Britain since 2012 :
The SACS cable consists of 4 fiber pairs, with an initial design capacity of 40Tb/s (100Gb/s x 100 wavelengths x 4 fiber-pairs). SACS will feature the latest optical technologies to provide the most advanced subsea telecommunications system, coupled with a control plane based on innovative Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technology to serve bandwidth-intensive applications.
It is owned by Angola Cables, which is joint venture of five Angolan operators Angola Telecom (51%), Unitel (31%), MSTelcom (9%), Movicel (6%) and Startel (3%).
NEC is currently seeking the best ocean floor route. The cable is supposed to be operational mid-2018. It is the first South transatlantic cable connecting the African continent with Latin America.
Project cost: $160M
NEC announcement:
Angola Cables
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