Google and Wiocc have announced the Equiano undersea cable’s second landing on the African continent.
Google’s Equiano subsea cable has landed in Lagos, Nigeria — its second in a series of landings on the African continent.
“We are partnering with multiple key telecom players, including our landing party, the West Indian Ocean Cable Company ,”Equiano’s Lagos landing comes a month after Google announced the cable’s arrival in Togo.Google says it hopes to complete the deployment later this year. Google West African director Juliet Ehimuan and Lagos state governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu signing Equianoacquired one of Equiano’s twelve fibre pairsEach fibre pair has a design capacity of 12 terabits per second , for an overall capacity of 144 Tbps for the whole cable system.
This is nearly ten times larger than the current design capacity of the West African Cable System — another cable in Wiocc’s portfolio. Equiano will be the largest cable landing in South Africa by some margin when it arrives in Melkbosstrand.
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