SEACOM

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SEACOM is a project that connects southern and eastern Africa with Europe and South Asia via fiber optic cables and thus enables broadband applications such as Internet , HDTV and IPTV . The system consists of a combination of land and sea ​​cables and has a capacity of 1280  Gbit / s. On July 23, 2009, the operational readiness was demonstrated at a joint event in the participating countries.

General

SEACOM is 75% owned by African investors, the remaining 25% is owned by Herakles Telecom . The projected total cost is 650 million US dollars .

For a long time, East Africa relied on expensive and slow satellite connections as there was no cable connection to the Internet. The cost of a satellite connection is $ 7,500 to $ 12,000 per Mbps per month. The cost of a fiber connection is expected to be around $ 500 to $ 800 per Mbps per month.

SEACOM is the third project with a similar objective , alongside EASSy (Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System) and TEAMS (The East African Marine System).

Infrastructure

Within Africa, South Africa , Mozambique , Madagascar , Tanzania and Kenya are connected to one another via a protected ring topology . An additional pair of cables connects South Africa with Kenya. These two cable pairs have a total capacity of 1280 Gbit / s.

Two further cable pairs with a capacity of 640 Gbit / s each connect Kenya with a PoP in Marseille , France and Tanzania with Mumbai , India .

A total of 13,700 kilometers of undersea cables were laid. As a multiplexing technique that comes SDH method used.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SEACOM - Brochure 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (.pdf, English)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.seacom.mu  
  2. ↑ SEACOM GOES LIVE ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) July 23, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seacom.mu
  3. ↑ SEACOM - Ownership Structure ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seacom.mu
  4. ↑ SEACOM Closes Financing, Starts Construction of Undersea Fiber Optic Cable ( Memento of the original dated February 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) November 13, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seacom.mu
  5. ↑ a b Science-2Day - Internet in Africa ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.science-2day.de
  6. ↑ ft.com - Kenya signs on for cable broadband link July 8, 2007
  7. ↑ SEACOM - Network Overview ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seacom.mu

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