Paratus launches fibre "express route" for Johannesburg-London connection

[Jan]

Fibre "express route" connecting Johannesburg and London launched

Paratus Group has announced a fibre “express route” between Johannesburg and London, promising latency of 123 milliseconds and up to 800-gigabit capacity.

The route uses Paratus’ newly-completed 1,890km terrestrial fibre link between Johannesburg, South Africa and Swakopmund, Namibia via Botswana.

 

[Soul Assassin]

I offer myself as beta tester.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Another day, another cable

 

[DapperDanMan]

Another day, another cable

Perhaps not technically a new cable this time?

 

[ToxicBunny]

This is actually a good idea, resiliency from local network outages between the major cities is a good thing.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Perhaps not technically a new cable this time?

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Still, just another cable, does not bring us a new route, maybe just a short cut. Too many times I hit the speed bumps in Marseilles hard, going to the UK.

 

[grant_cpt]

No if only we can get an express route on land right up Africa to Portugal/Spain (wishful thinking)

 

[Gambit]

Sounds like a great idea to lower the latency in Gauteng but if memory serves me correctly, terrestrial links are way less reliable than undersea cables, so hopefully they have more than 1 path from Namibia

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

No if only we can get an express route on land right up Africa to Portugal/Spain (wishful thinking)

Directly to London - no stops along thd way, would be best - yeah - I know - Wishful thinking.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Sounds like a great idea to lower the latency in Gauteng but if memory serves me correctly, terrestrial links are way less reliable than undersea cables, so hopefully they have more than 1 path from Namibia

Lots of people with backackters between JHB and NAM

 

[r00igev@@r]

Except that single point of failure for the whole of Africa known as the Bermuda d’Ivoire triangle located 100km off Grand Bassam.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Except that single point of failure for the whole of Africa known as the Bermuda d’Ivoire triangle located 100km off Grand Bassam.

Be thankful we still have one cable operational.

 

[Johand]

Another day, another cable

This is actually a good idea, resiliency from local network outages between the major cities is a good thing.

Still, just another cable, does not bring us a new route, maybe just a short cut. Too many times I hit the speed bumps in Marseilles hard, going to the UK.

Well very important for South Africa once we manage to gain independence here in Cape Town and cutting the fiber near Beaufort-West.

Or when Chernobyl in Melkbos explodes and takes down the cables landing there and in Ysterfontein.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Well very important for South Africa once we manage to gain independence here in Cape Town and cutting the fiber near Beaufort-West.

Or when Chernobyl in Melkbos explodes and takes down the cables landing there and in Ysterfontein.

Who knows ... , till it happens, just a short cut.

 

[DapperDanMan]

Well very important for South Africa once we manage to gain independence here in Cape Town and cutting the fiber near Beaufort-West.

An independent and seceded Western Cape will in this way truly do its part in assisting the cursed continent's decolonisation missions.

SNIP SNIP

 

[cavedog]

123ms from JHB to LON?

I very much doubt that.

 

[zolly]

I was 120ms to the UK as well please.

 

[Soul Assassin]

123ms from JHB to LON?

I very much doubt that.

It's like when SACS was launching and they said 80ms but it was measured from landing point to landing point.

 

[DapperDanMan]

if only we can get an express route on land right up Africa to Portugal/Spain (wishful thinking)

The African continent's North2South cable project is no longer just a concept. (Unfortunately, I forgot the name for the project.)

But in 2025, the African continent's East2West cable project is set to be completed.

Africa50 and Bayobab in partnership to develop pan-African terrestrial fibre

Project East2West partnership will: Help bridge Africa’s connectivity gap by improving broadband access for landlocked African countries. Offer substantial i...

www.africa50.com

 

[Sinbad]

Why does Paratus sound to me like some kind of mercenary organisation?