TEAMS
| T he E ast A frican M arine S ystem (TEAM) | |
|---|---|
| Cable type | Fiber optic cable |
| owner | 15% budget 20% Government of Kenya |
| Landing points | 1. Fujairah , United Arab Emirates |
| overall length | 4900 km |
| speed | 120 Gb / s |
| cables | 1 cable |
| active since | June 12, 2009 |
TEAMS ( T he E ast A frican M arine S ystem) is a submarine cable , which by the Kenyan government in response to the under South African auspices standing, competing EASSy was driven cable. 15% of the shares belong to Etisalat , a state-owned company in the United Arab Emirates , 85% to various Kenyan companies (of which 20% are owned by the Government of Kenya, 20% Safaricom Ltd, 20% Telkom Kenya Ltd, 10% Kenya Data Networks Ltd, 10% Econet / Essar Telecom Ltd, 5% Wananchi Group, 3.75% Jamii Telecom Ltd, 6.25% remainder).
Infrastructure
TEAMS connects Kenya with the United Arab Emirates over a length of 4900 km . The transmission capacity is 120 Gb / s, which can be expanded to 1.2 Tb / s.
history
On October 11, 2007, Alcatel-Lucent was awarded the contract for $ 82 million to lay the cable out of 5 companies bidding . 1.5 years after construction began in Fujairah , Mombasa was reached on June 12, 2009 and the cable was ceremoniously put into operation by Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki .
On February 25, 2012, the cable in front of the Kenyan port of Mombasa was damaged by an anchored ship. The failure was serious because at the time TEAMS itself was used as a replacement for the EASSy , which was also damaged at the time . On April 27, 2012, the TEAMS cable was accidentally interrupted, just 35 days after the previous malfunction was resolved.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ TEAM on Greg's Cable Map
- ↑ Ship's crew drops anchor and cuts undersea cables , golem , February 28, 2012
- ↑ TEAMS cut again. Another month of slow speeds? ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2012 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. Dennis Kioko Mbuvi, April 27, 2012
