{"id":322948,"date":"2021-08-16T14:11:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T14:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/?p=322948"},"modified":"2021-08-16T14:11:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T14:11:41","slug":"2africa-consortium-to-expand-giant-subsea-cable-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2021\/08\/16\/2africa-consortium-to-expand-giant-subsea-cable-system\/","title":{"rendered":"2Africa consortium to expand giant subsea cable system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A consortium, comprised of China Mobile International, Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, Saudi Telecom Company (stc), Telecom Egypt, Vodafone, and WIOCC, decided to expand a giant sub-sea cable in Africa.<\/p>\n<div id=\"Outstream\"><\/div>\n<p>The consortium will add\u00a0four new branches to the 2Africa cable,\u00a0extending its connectivity to Seychelles, the Comoros Islands, and Angola, and bringing a new landing to south-east Nigeria, according to a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The new branches join the recently announced link to the Canary Islands,\u00a0raising\u00a0the number of 2Africa landings to 35 in 26 countries.<\/p>\n<p>2Africa\u00a0is set to be the world&#8217;s largest subsea cable project, expecting to deliver faster, more reliable internet service to each country where it lands.<\/p>\n<p>Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN),\u00a0chosen to deploy the new branches,\u00a0has started manufacturing the cable and building repeater units in its plants in Calais and Greenwich to deploy the first segments in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in May 2020,\u00a0the 2Africa cable\u00a0is expected to come into service in\u00a0late 2023 as\u00a0Egypt&#8217;s terrestrial crossing,\u00a0which interconnects landing sites on the Red and the Mediterranean Seas via two completely diverse terrestrial routes, has been completed ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A consortium, comprised of China Mobile International, Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, Saudi Telecom Company (stc), Telecom Egypt, Vodafone, and WIOCC, decided to expand a giant sub-sea cable in Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":322949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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