Have you ever heard about EASSy submarine cable system along Africa’s eastern and southern coast?

Connectikpeople.co recalls that, entered service in 2010, EASSy is owned and operated by a group of 17 African and international shareholders, all telecommunications operators and service providers. The system is implemented in a protected ring configuration linking eight countries from Sudan to South Africa, via Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, Comores and Mozambique. Landings are located in Port Sudan, Djibouti (Djibouti), Mombasa (Kenya), Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania), Moroni (Comores), Toliary (Madagascar), Maputo (Mozambique) and Mtunzini (South Africa). The system also addresses a wide range of international destinations through interconnection with multiple international submarine cable networks for diverse, seamless onward connectivity to Europe, the

Americas, the Middle East and Asia.

Henceforth because of the proliferation of data in Africa, demand for capacity on the system, this system will be upgraded by Alcatel-Lucent Solution, with the deployment of the 100 gigabit-per-second (Gbit/s) technology. Meaning that, Alcatel-Lucent‘s 100G technology will enable the system to ultimately carry capacity in excess of 10Tbit/s, further complementing its ability to carry high volumes of data capacity on the EASSy system, which runs 10,000km from South Africa to Sudan.  This upgrade will add an additional 400Gbps of capacity throughout the system.