New Seacom cable system coming

[Hanno Labuschagne]

New Seacom cable system coming

Seacom has announced the launch of SEACOM 2.0, a submarine cable system it says is poised to redefine connectivity across the Indian Ocean Basin, Middle East, Mediterranean, and Southern Europe.


In 2009, Seacom’s first privately owned subsea cable connected countries around the Indian Ocean, slashed connectivity costs by 300% and enabled the launch of true uncapped broadband in South Africa.

 

[airborne]

Another one?!
Do we really need another cable, aren't there multiple redundancies with Meta and Google cables as well?

 

[Dimpie (JIGSAW)]

Another one?!
Do we really need another cable, aren't there multiple redundancies with Meta and Google cables as well?

It's different ...

Seacom said its new system would be no ordinary cable. Seacom 2.0 introduces a 48-fibre-pair architecture, a leap in design that it said is tailored for high-capacity, low-latency AI workloads.

 

[Insint]

Another one?!
Do we really need another cable, aren't there multiple redundancies with Meta and Google cables as well?

There can never be too many redundancies when it comes to world communication lines.

 

[Insint]

It's different ...

They can't even leave out the word AI with cables that transport data anymore

 

[Swa]

I'm getting tired of all the cables without us having proper access to them.

 

[Napalm2880]

I'm getting tired of all the cables without us having proper access to them.

These cables terminate at a landing station, and you access them via your ISP who will lease capacity from Seacom, and the other providers. They're not going to do a cable run to your house

 

[Swa]

These cables terminate at a landing station, and you access them via your ISP who will lease capacity from Seacom, and the other providers. They're not going to do a cable run to your house

At R2/MB? Really cables aren't a problem any more but last mile access is. We need the latter which hasn't been growing at nearly the same pace and every new cable is only of benefit to providers.

 

[fragtion]

This is exciting because we needed a new cable running to the east to augment/replace Telkom's SAFE cable which is outdated, not widely used, and lacking in capacity. Hopefully this cable will also have landing stations in Reunion, Mauritius, and India, rather than being just a direct point-to-point link to Malaysia

Yet the map seems a bit discouraging as there's no indication of such links, and while they're touting improved connectivity to Mediterranean/Southern Europe, the image only shows that link terminating by France, when they could have made a stop somewhere closer, like Cyprus, Greece or Turkey. Still early days though, so more details will hopefully emerge in due course

But am I reading the (blurry) image correctly in seeing that Seacom is also planning to link to Perth, Australia and Virginia, USA? That seems quite ambitious in light of Google's Umoja, etc

 

[Jan]

But am I reading the (blurry) image correctly in seeing that Seacom is also planning to link to Perth, Australia and Virginia, USA? That's pretty ambitious if I say so myself, especially given the fact that Google is already going to be running its own cable system (Umoja) between these endpoints

I'm asking for a higher res map. But no, I think that's Umoja. It looks like SEACOM showed the competing cable systems on the same map.

 

[G.A.S]

Seacom: The company/cable that unexpectedly gave us uncapped internet while everyone was waiting for another cable to liberate our internet.