EASSy has landed

ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa), 16 February 2010

The East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), an undersea or optical submarine cable that will connect countries in East Africa to the rest of the world, has landed at Mtunzini in Kwazulu Natal yesterday morning. 

Landing delayed but celebrations on the way…

There is ample room to celebrate EASSy’s landing in South Africa despite delays and the fact that Telkom is EASSy’s landing partner in South Africa.

EASSy’s landing was planned for last Saturday morning, but bad weather conditions and logistical problems delayed the landing until Monday morning. This is however minor if one considers that EASSy is expected to help:

• Boost South Africa’s international bandwidth capacity – There is no doubt that EASSy will help to immensely increase South Africa’s international bandwidth capacity which in turn will help to increase redundancy. The more redundancy there is, the less problems broadband Internet users will experience when browsing international websites, making international downloads, etc. 

In fact, without getting too technical, by design EASSy can increase South Africa’s international bandwidth capacity with 1.4Tbps, which is by any standard an enormous amount of additional capacity.  

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