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South Atlantic interlink connecting
Cameroon to Brazil fully installed
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T
he South Atlantic Inter Link (SAIL)
consortium has announced the
completion of the near 6,000km
marine installation of its 25-year life-span
transatlantic fibre optic subsea cable.
This marks a significant milestone because,
for the first time, two continents, Africa
and the Americas, are fully connected to
their respective landing stations; Kribi in
Cameroon and Fortaleza in Brazil.
The SAIL cable system has been designed
to be a fast and direct path, utilising
the industry leading 100G transmission
technology and to deliver a design
capacity of 32 Tbps, through a 4-fibre pair
configuration since its inception in 2016.
It is a joint investment by China Unicom
and CAMTEL. The entire project has been
carried out by Huawei Marine Networks, a
leading global supplier in the submarine
cable industry.
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With the rapid development of global
infrastructure and a massive surge in
worldwide internet traffic, Africa and Latin
America are becoming strategic emerging
markets of the global telecommunications
industry. The introduction of SAIL meets the
traffic demands from the emerging markets
and opens a new routing through diverse
paths between Africa and North America,
Europe and South America. Through the
launch of SAIL, countries in these regions,
especially the Southern Hemisphere
countries, will be more connected and in a
better position to drive the development of
the region’s digital economy.
As an important infrastructure located in the
Southern Hemisphere, supported by other
submarine cables directed to Eurasia, the
SAIL cable will positively impact the current
communications market in Global South.
The cable will allow immediate links of
BRICS with connections to Brazil and South
Africa in Southern Hemisphere, and China,
Russia and India in Eurasia. This will reinforce
increasing communication demand and
drive rapid expansion of global emerging
markets in these areas. n
AFRICA AND
LATIN AMERICA ARE
BECOMING STRATEGIC
EMERGING
MARKETS OF THE
GLOBAL TELE-
COMMUNICATIONS
INDUSTRY.
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