{"id":19321,"date":"2011-03-25T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-25T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:33:00","slug":"eassy-upgraded-to-4-72tbps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/19321-eassy-upgraded-to-4-72tbps.html","title":{"rendered":"EASSy upgraded to 4.72Tbps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WIOCC today announced that the design capacity of the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) has been increased to 4.72Tbps.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is based on the latest 40Gbps wavelength technology from supplier Alcatel-Lucent, which enables 59 x 40Gbps to be configured on each of EASSy&rsquo;s two fibre-pairs,&rdquo; WIOCC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;EASSy now represents more than 70 per cent of all the international fibre-optic inventory on Africa&rsquo;s east coast (the international capacity of alternatives TEAMS and SEACOM being 1.2 and 0.6Tbps respectively), and it still offers the only direct route between eastern Africa and Europe &ndash; via the African coastline, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean,&rdquo; said WIOCC.<\/p>\n<p>The EASSy Management Committee has also announced that EASSy&rsquo;s operational capacity will be more than doubled at the end of this year, driven by faster-than-expected capacity uptake by shareholders and other domestic and international telcos and ISPs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/321783-EASSy-submarine-cable-system-upgraded-to-4.72Tbps\" target=\"_self\" title=\"EASSy upgraded to 4.72Tbps\"><strong>EASSy upgraded to 4.72Tbps<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC) announces EASSy design capacity increase to 4.72Tbps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}