The Angola Cables
has commenced its link between South Africa and South America kicked off, with
the launch of the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) in Sangano, Angola,
reports ITRealms.
SACS, ITRealms gathered,
is the first direct link between Africa and South America.
SACS is a subsea cable with 40 Tera bytes per second (tbps)
of capacity that will extend more than 6,500 km to Fortaleza, Brazil which began
on the Angolan coast in the municipality of Quissama, being constructed by NEC Corporation.
The launch event was attended by José Carvalho da Rocha, the
Angolan Minister of Telecommunications and Technologies, local and
international business leaders, as well as the shareholders and guests of
Angola Cables.
The installation of SACS, ITRealms reports, has been
considered a strategic project for Angola to advance the region’s digital
economy and to improve global communications.
The chief executive officer, Angola Cables, António Nunes, noted
that data centres and Internet Exchange Points, benefit immensely, just as it offers
a paradigm shift in Africa’s telecommunications sector.
“For Angolans, the time to access content available in
America – the largest centre for the production and aggregation of digital
content and services – will improve fivefold,” he said.
Currently, he said, it takes approximately 300 milliseconds
to connect between Angola and Brazil, stressing that with SACS, the latency –
the time lag between a data packet being sent and received – is expected to be reduced
to approximately 60 milliseconds.
“Angola is becoming one of the telecommunications hubs in
sub-Saharan Africa,” Nunes said, adding that “Current cable systems, such as
WACS, together with the SACS and Monet cables systems – complemented by local
data centers – will improve connectivity, but also economically benefit Angola
and the surrounding regions as tech companies requiring high connectivity
establish and grow their operations in Africa.”
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