{"id":95347,"date":"2014-01-23T13:36:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T11:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=95347"},"modified":"2014-01-23T14:21:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T12:21:02","slug":"eassy-10-terabit-per-second-upgrade-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/95347-eassy-10-terabit-per-second-upgrade-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"EASSy 10 Terabit-per-second upgrade announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Alcatel-Lucent\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227850-Alcatel-Lucent\">Alcatel-Lucent<\/a> announced in a press release on Wednesday, 22 January 2014 that it is to upgrade the <a title=\"EASSy\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/216377-EASSy\">EASSy<\/a> submarine cable system with the deployment of 100 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) technology.<\/p>\n<p>According to Alcatel-Lucent, its 100G technology will enable EASSy to ultimately carry capacity in excess of 10 Terabits-per-second.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Wood, Chairman of the EASSy Management Committee said this upgrade will add an additional 400Gbps of capacity throughout the system.<\/p>\n<p>EASSy is owned and operated by a group of 17 African and international shareholders &#8211; all telecommunications operators and service providers.<\/p>\n<p>The cable runs 10,000km from South Africa to Sudan and the system is implemented in a protected ring configuration linking eight countries.<\/p>\n<p>Landings are located in Port Sudan, Djibouti, Mombasa (Kenya), Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania), Moroni (Comores), Toliary (Madagascar), Maputo (Mozambique), and Mtunzini (South Africa).<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More broadband and telecommunications news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/95311-simple-truth-about-sas-broadband-prices.html\"><strong>Simple truth about SA\u2019s broadband prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/95277-truth-behind-telkom-adsl-mess.html\"><strong>Truth behind Telkom ADSL mess<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/95281-fastest-ever-real-world-broadband-speed.html\"><strong>Fastest ever real-world broadband speed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/95057-potential-nsa-spying-on-sa-networks.html\"><strong>Potential NSA spying on SA networks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/95103-telkom-wholesaleretail-operations-split.html\"><strong>Telkom wholesale\/retail operations split<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcatel-Lucent has announced that it is to upgrade the EASSy submarine cable system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,2248,6815,18736],"class_list":["post-95347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-active","tag-alcatel-lucent","tag-chris-wood","tag-eastern-africa-submarine-cable-system-eassy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95347"}],"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=95347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95351,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95347\/revisions\/95351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}