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Angola Cables uses Ciena to modernise
West Africa Cable consortium
As a major investor in the West Africa Cable System
consortium, Angola Cables is one of the leading capacity
providers for the African West Coast. Angola Cables is also
an operator of the Monet subsea cable, an open system,
where each consortium member can select the submarine
line terminals for its cable fiber pairs, providing customers
with greater flexibility and choice of technology. The system
is expected to be in service in the second half of 2017.
Map of the West Africa Cable System consortium.
Angola Cables, a dedicated wholesale carrier, has selected
Ciena’s GeoMesh and Blue Planet solutions to support its
new service launch on the Monet subsea cable. This 10,556
km route will provide more than 25 Tb/s of traffic on Angola
Cables’ network between the US and Latin America’s major
business hub of São Paulo, Brazil. Angola Cables’ wholesale
customers can utilise this additional connectivity to support
bandwidth demands driven by on-demand applications such
as over-the-top video and cloud computing.
To handle these network demands, Ciena’s 6500 Packet-
Optical Platform, equipped with the WaveLogic Ai coherent
optical chipset, will provide wavelengths at capacities greater
than 200G between Angola Cables’ point-of-presences and
without the need for regeneration. Additionally, Ciena’s
GeoMesh spectrum sharing capability provides cost-effective
connectivity while enabling wholesale customers to manage
network traffic without potential disruption from other users
on the open cable system.
With Ciena’s Blue Planet Manage, Control and Plan software
and cloud-based SLA Portal, Angola Cables can better
manage and maintain bandwidth and provide customers a
real-time view of network behaviors that impact service level
agreements. Angola Cables will also utilise Ciena Specialist
Services for training and NOC supervision.
Fujitsu provides datacentre and
tablets for Egyptian census
Fujitsu announced that it is
supporting the Egyptian government
in conducting the first population
census to be based entirely on
digital processes. Fujitsu will provide
hundreds of Stylistic tablet devices
plus datacentre services for the
collection and analysis of vast
amounts of data. Automating and
digitalising the census process is
expected to halve the time it takes to
gather and evaluate data from Egypt’s
population of around 94 million, as
well as increasing data accuracy and
reliability.
The Egyptian census takes place every
five years. Starting in February and
running over several months, the 2017
census is managed by Egypt’s official
statistical agency, the Central Agency
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Starting in February and running over several
months the 2017 census is managed by Egypt’s official
statistical agency.
for Public Mobilisation and Statistics
CAPMAS. The final report is expected
as soon as July 2017, which will
represent the fastest-ever turnaround
for a census of this magnitude.
Fujitsu Stylistic Q555 tablets will
be used to collect population data,
going door to door visiting Egyptian
households. Data will be transferred
via LTE, 3G connections, and centrally
stored and analysed in the new
CAPMAS datacentre in Egypt. The
datacentre, which went live in 2016,
has been delivered, installed and
is being supported by Fujitsu and
includes Fujitsu Primergy RX2540
M2 servers and Eternus DX storage
systems, as well as Fujitsu Eternus
CS800 for backup.
The Fujitsu tablets that will be used
in the census were chosen for their
ability to withstand demanding
usage over long periods, and provide
all-day operation even under
difficult conditions, such as extreme
temperatures and dusty environments.
Following the completion of the
census, the Egyptian government is
planning to provide the tablets to
schools for educational purposes.
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