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EASSy brought into commercial service during August 2010
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Neotel will hosts the EASSy Management Committee in Johannesburg, and they expect the cable to be brought into commercial service this month
Neotel today announced that it is hosting the Eastern African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) Management Committee in Johannesburg.
According to Neotel this meeting represents an important milestone for EASSy, which was recently completed, and will be brought into commercial service during August 2010.
EASSy is a 1.3 Tbps (terabits per second) submarine optical fibre cable system that will link Mtunzini in Northern kwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, to East Africa, and onwards to the Middle East, landing in South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Comores, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti and Sudan.
It is a joint project of more than twenty telecoms operators from across the continent and beyond, including Neotel, Telkom, Vodacom and MTN, with various international debt funding institutions.
“The bringing into service of this new cable system represents a significant step for the countries and people of Southern and East Africa, bringing additional (and in some cases, the first) high bandwidth Internet connectivity to the countries of the region,” Neotel said in a press statement.
“Neotel recently hosted the EASSy Assignment Routing & Restoration Sub-committee, which finalised, amongst others, the restoration plan of EASSy cable in the event of unforeseen breakages, to ensure high availability of services. Other issues finalised included capacity activation and de-activation, the readiness of the backhaul routes, and physical testing of compatibility of cables in different countries, demonstrating the readiness of the EASSy cable to go live.”
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