EASSy bandwidth here within weeks
The 10,500 km Eastern African Submarine Cable System, better known as EASSy, will provide South Africa with more international bandwidth within the next few weeks.
EASSy, which is one of the nine undersea telecommunications cables that will connect various parts of Sub-Saharan Africa to the rest of the world by 2011, landed at Mtunzini on the northern KwaZulu-Natal coastline in February.
Testing started soon after the cable landing, and in May the WIOCC announced that EASSy’s stand alone testing, where all the equipment in each of the landing stations is tested, has been completed.
Further encouraging news is that the second phase of testing, where every segment of the submarine cable is put through its paces, has also been completed successfully.
Testing the entire system end-to-end is currently under way, and it is likely that this testing will be completed within the next two weeks.
Trevor Martins, MTN Group’s EASSy Project Manager, told MyBroadband that they are likely to take ownership of the EASSy cable within the next two weeks after which they will start with live testing with clients.
This process, Martins said, is expected to take a few weeks after which commercial services will become available using EASSy. Martins expects an official commercial launch in late August.
EASSy has a design capacity of 1.4 Tbps and will be of great value to provide redundancy for the 1.27 Tbps SEACOM cable.
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