Undersea cable systems: Mixed progress

ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa), 15 January 2008

The progress of the SEACOM and EASSy (The East African Submarine Cable System) undersea cable systems can be described as ‘mixed’. Although SEACOM has already entered the cable construction phase, it seems that EASSY has not entered the construction phase in mid-December last year as promised (if one can take the consortium’s silence as a sign that construction has not started on time as promised).

SEACOM

It’s great to read elsewhere that SEACOM is on track for a 2009 debut and will be ready to meet the bandwidth needs of events such as the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa. Furthermore, SEACOM is confident that they are going to beat EASSy when it comes to who will be the first to complete construction on the eastern route to Europe. This comes despite claims made by EASSy that their cable system will be operational by the end of this year or early next year. It’s also great to read that the SEACOM cable system will have multiple times the capacity available on SAT3/SAFE, or to be exact, 1.28 Tbps of capacity.

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