The cable, co-owned by MTN, Meta Platforms, and several other consortium partners, landed at a facility near the Koeberg nuclear power station in Cape Town.
MTN GlobalConnect officially announced the landing on Tuesday. It brought the cable to shore last week.
In addition to being the world’s longest cable, 2Africa will also have the highest design capacity of subsea cables currently serving the continent at 180Tbps. “2Africa is the first cable going around Africa. You’ve got cables on the East and West [coasts], but this is the first time you’ve got a cable that is designed to serve the whole of Africa,” Aliyu said.
Alcatel Submarine Networks was appointed to build 2Africa and its extensions using a new technology called Spatial Division Multiplexing .
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