EASSy aims for June 2010 ETA

^^ exactly, it doesnt connect Africa with the rest of the world. Is this purely an inter-Africa link? If so, it will make no real impact or nothing near the impact Seacom will have. Thats a pitty really.
 
Garyvdh said:
we are still trying to figure out what new bandwidth EASSY brings to the continent. So far, looking at the map, it looks like all EASSY does is re-route existing bandwidth on the continent. It has to rely on other inter-continental cables for outside bandwidth.
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Thanks for pointing that out, I hadn't realised that before. Sounds like an African initiative, set up high speed connections between only African countries to keep the imperialists out, never mind that no one really wants to download anything from other African countries.
 
LOL... and connecting in Mogadishu as well? What the heck are they gonna connect it to there? Some bomb-shelled burned out government buildings? The Ethiopian backed troops, or the Islamic rebels?
 
EASSy connects to EIG which lands in North Africa, France, Spain, Portugal, and the UK.
 
MTN invests in $700m Europe-India cable

http://www.egovonline.net/news/news-details.asp?newsid=15987

22 May 2009

The MTN Group is investing in a new $700 million submarine cable system, the European Indian Gateway (EIG), to be built by Alcatel-Lucent starting next month. The 15,000 kilometre-long high bandwidth optical-fibre will connect Europe and India from the United Kingdom to Portugal, Gibraltar, Monaco, Libya, Egypt, Djibouti and the United Arab Emirates.

The cable's purpose is to provide a central linking point for other cable systems already in the pipeline such as the East African Submarine Cable System (Eassy) and the West African Cable System (WACS). The project is expected to be completed by the middle of 2010 and link other planned cable systems in Africa to global telecommunications infrastructure via Asia and Europe.

Installation of the EIG cable, which is equipped with upgradeable transmission facilities, is expected to increase efficiency and reduce operating costs for Internet connections, e-commerce, video, data and voice services, among other broadband services. The undersea cable will also provide the first direct, high bandwidth optical-fibre submarine cable system from the United Kingdom to India. EIG will provide seamless interconnections and capacity of up to 3.84 terabits per second with seamless links to major cables in North America as well.
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So it will connect to EASSY and WACS!!! Great!
 
ITbob said:
looks like MTN are making some great investments.
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Ja, it's nice... here is a local pic...

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Mtn needs to start selling cheaper local or uncapped at a flat rate. Who owns mtn? Telkom, Anc? So far mtn is the other telkom imo(telkom africa).
 
K awsome makes sense now. Well lets see what this cable brings -

how awsome would it be if it was also launching next month:):) ahh we can dream.
 
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