ACE submarine cable gets new members

[ldmelsa]

they will have to battle it out for market share

Yay for competition!

 

[Gapz]

Not all 2010...just check the dates here: http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/

Awesome diagram of whats going on! Thanks rpm!

 

[LazyLion]

Ja, that map looks great, my only concern is that we still only have one cable going under the continent around the bottom for redundancy. Would be sweet if all of them could go around the cape and hook up on the other side. Complete the circle around the continent.

 

[ponder]

So I guess ACE will now definitely be extended all the way down to South Africa?

Yes

Isnt there talks of a phase 2 of the Main-One cable extending to SA too?

Yes

Ja, that map looks great, my only concern is that we still only have one cable going under the continent around the bottom for redundancy. Would be sweet if all of them could go around the cape and hook up on the other side. Complete the circle around the continent.

I mentioned this to a seacom dude a while back somewhere here but what do I know

 

[Creag]

I want to believe that there is still a sliver of chance that the line speeds and data availability will significantly improve, and that it will no longer cost an arm and a leg to make it a reality.

 

[Smooth Criminal]

All these submarine cables, and not a damn thing being done about the local loop!

 

[gorgamin]

they're also connecting to us...

Everyone always sees fibre cable projects as us being connected to the rest of the world... when in fact, it works the other way around as well.... the rest of the world will have 4mbit uncapped input from africa.. pointless as it may seem.... there's quite a few possibilities...