2Africa subsea cable lands at Duynefontein

[Jan]

Photos of MTN GlobalConnect's 2Africa undersea cable landing in South Africa

The world’s longest undersea cable, 2Africa, has made landfall at Duynefontein near Cape Town.

MTN GlobalConnect officially announced the landing on Tuesday. It brought the cable to shore last week.

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Facebook's massive undersea cable lands in South Africa

2Africa, the world's longest undersea cable, has made landfall near Cape Town.

This is according to MTN GlobalConnect, a member of the 2Africa Consortium. The consortium's other members are China Mobile International, Meta (formerly Facebook), Orange, Saudi Telecommunication Company, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone, and WIOCC.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

This cables provide power also right?

 

[Avbob se stoep]

So will this influence our EUW ping when be play games?

 

[Jan]

So will this influence our EUW ping when be play games?

Unless they have some magic the WACS guys don't, I think we've achieved peak EU ping

 

["D"]

This cables provide power also right?

Unfortunately it uses power, so now we have even less power left over to export to Zim!

So will this influence our EUW ping when be play games?

No, but you can now look forward to viewing FB pics in UHD!

 

[Ecco]

Massive!

 

[gregmcc]

Stolen in 3..2...1....

 

[Dan C]

Stolen in 3..2...1....

What are you going to do with a stolen undersea cable ?

 

[Gimli_]

Still waiting for signs that Equiano is alive. Anyone knows when/who will be the first?

 

[Yskasmetnstoof]

What are you going to do with a stolen undersea cable ?

They steal rubbish bins on SA.

 

[Dan C]

They steal rubbish bins on SA.

Rubbish bins have a use. A 45,000 km long cable ?

 

[Jan]

Photos of MTN GlobalConnect's 2Africa undersea cable landing in South Africa

The world’s longest undersea cable, 2Africa, has made landfall at Duynefontein near Cape Town.

MTN GlobalConnect officially announced the landing on Tuesday. It brought the cable to shore last week.

 

[MEG101]

Great, lets all hope all this new cables landing will drive bandwith prices down and increase speed. May we see fiber entry level speed at 100mbps for R499, 200mbps for R699 and 1Gbps @ R999 per month. Vuma is talking about 10Gbps connections, so lets see what will happen. Would pay with a smile R999 per month for 1Gbps.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Great, lets all hope all this new cables landing will drive bandwith prices down and increase speed. May we see fiber entry level speed at 100mbps for R499, 200mbps for R699 and 1Gbps @ R999 per month. Vuma is talking about 10Gbps connections, so lets see what will happen. Would pay with a smile R999 per month for 1Gbps.

Line rentals wont be dropping and local peering.

 

[Rickster]

Rubbish bins have a use. A 45,000 km long cable ?

That's a lot of copper and steel.

 

[Moosedrool]

What are you going to do with a stolen undersea cable ?

Lots of copper to power those repeaters:

 

[Dan C]

Lots of copper to power those repeaters:

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That's it ! On my way to Duynefontein to collect some copper.

 

[Ecco]

Are they going to trench the beach to get it to landing station? Or I would have though they ran it through some pipe or something to get it to the landing station. Looks weird end vulnerable the way its just there running from the ocean onto the sand and further up.

 

[ingeon]

Nice. Still hoping to see a cable like the saex route was gonna take to reduce latency to the US via Brazil to New York and a link from Mauritius to Perth. Sadly that have looks like it never got through all its milestones etc.

SAEx - 108Tbps Submarine Cable Network connecting Africa to the Americas (SAEx1) and Asia (SAEx2)

SAEx International Ltd is building a 108Tbps Submarine Cable Network of 25,000 km connecting Africa to the Americas (SAEx1) and Asia (SAEx2)

www.saex.net

 

[ThinkCentre]

It would be interesting to know who owns what persentage in this cable!