EASSy landing delayed
Following several delays due to bad weather and logistical errors over the weekend The East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) landed at Mtunzini in Kwazulu Natal at 8:04am this morning.
EASSy was initially scheduled to land on Saturday morning, bringing with it a 1.4Tbps design capacity and spanning 10,000km with additional landing stations in Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Comoros, Madagascar and Mozambique.
Problems with refueling the Ile de Batz, one of Alcatel Lucent’s three cable laying vessels, and an onshore wind resulted in the landing delays.
According to a Telkom representative “on-site personnel are currently busy with the landing processes as indicated”.
Upon becoming commercially active in August EASSy will offer interconnection with various other undersea international cable systems that will enable traffic on EASSy to connect to Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and Asia, thereby enhancing the east coast of Africa’s connectivity into the global telecommunications network.
The system itself will offer a full redundancy and protection package to customers upon launch, meaning that there is a duplicate or triplicate network or component to offer backup during a failure.
Ultimately Telkom believes that EASSy will compliment Telkom’s existing undersea cable systems – SAT3 and SAFE. The company is also a key investor in the West African Cable System (WACS) which, upon landing in 2011, will bring a design capacity of 3.84Tbps – the largest of its kind to reach Southern Africa.
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