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Orange , PCCW Global and PEACE Cable International announce the landing of PEACE submarine cable in Marseille
Announced back in September 2019 , the new PEACE ( Pakistan and East Africa Connecting Europe ) submarine cable has landed on the shores of Marseille . It will connect Europe to Asia via East Africa and was commissioned in 2020 .
Orange , acting as the landing party for the PEACE cable in France , has completed the landing of the PEACE system in Marseille and will supply and operate the cable landing station . With existing infrastructure and technical expertise , the company will be in charge of extending the PEACE System to one of Marseille ’ s major data centres where the submarine line terminal equipment is located .
“ We are thrilled with the successful execution of the Marseille landing , achieving yet another important milestone towards completing the construction of PEACE Cable System .
“ This achievement would not have been possible without the support of Orange , local partners , the local authorities and service providers located in Marseille , looking forward to completing the end-toend testing and commissioning of PEACE system , including Infinera and HMN Tech terminal equipment and launch PEACE system in Q1 , 2022 ,” said Haitham Zahran , VP EMEA Subsea Cable Systems . to design its subsystem with reconfigurable bandwidth for different points over the lifetime of the cable .
“ We are glad to have successfully completed this operation with our affiliate Orange Marine who managed the shore-end landing .
PEACE will provide the most direct and high-capacity route from Asia and East Africa to Europe . These features , combined with exceptionally low latency , are vitally important for a wide array of commercial and consumer applications .
Moreover , PEACE deploys a state-of-theart ‘ system within a system ’ configuration that gives each party the required flexibility
Through its partnership with PCCW Global and PEACE Cable International Network , Orange will benefit from enhanced capacity from the cable between Marseille and Kenya to support the growth of traffic in East Africa , especially through La Réunion and Mayotte . The objective also includes finding alternative routes and to reduce dependency on the existing systems on the eastern coast of Africa .
“ For Orange , having capacity on PEACE will provide greater route diversity , improved connection security and guaranteed support for increased capacity across all regions in the Indian Ocean zone , particularly La Réunion and Mayotte , especially reducing its dependency on the EASSy cable which links Djibouti to South Africa ,” said Jean- Luc Vuillemin , Executive Vice President of International Networks at Orange . p
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