Nokia and Angola Cables Trial the First Direct Optical Connection Between USA and Africa with PSE-3 Chipset Nokia Press Release January 17, 2o20 The South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) provides direct, low-latency trans-Atlantic routing to better serve rapidly growing data consumption markets in Africa Nokia’s PSE-3 chipset maximizes capacity and performance to meet surging video, [...]
Angola Cables and Nokia Trial First Direct Optical Fiber Link Between Africa and the USA Angola Cables Press Release November 13, 2019 Trial successfully completed in a collaborative effort to provide a direct, low latency Trans-Atlantic path from Luanda to Boca Raton. AfricaCom, Cape Town, South Africa - Angola Cables and Nokia have announced that [...]
Angola Cables Partners With AmLight ExP for REN Linking Florida With Africa By Telecompaper October 4, 2019 Angola Cables and Florida International University's Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA) have signed an MoU on joint development of a research and education network connecting Africa, the US and Latin America. The AmLight Consortium is [...]
Angola Cables Set to Launch Angola’s First Live Gaming Portal Angola Cables Press Release August 6, 2019 Partnership with Qwatti will open Angola’s growing gaming population to the more than 2.2 billion active gamers worldwide London, UNITED KINGDOM – Multinational telecoms company, Angola Cables, has announced that, through their ultra-low latency submarine fiber cable routes, [...]
Angola Cables Data Center in Brazil Is Now Live By Abigail Opiah, Data-Economy April 17, 2019 The Angola Cables data center will cater for the growing demand in content data transmission in the Southern hemisphere. Telecommunications company Angola Cables has announced the opening of its carrier-neutral data center, Angonap Fortaleza in Fortaleza, Brazil. The completed [...]
SACS Cable to Boost Connectivity in Africa via Teraco Data Centers By Malawi24 November 15, 2018 Teraco, Africa’s largest vendor neutral colocation data centre provider has said that clients currently making use of its data centres in Cape Town and Johannesburg are set to benefit from the cross connection to the South Atlantic Cable System [...]
Angola Cables Enters into Strategic Partnership with Silica Networks Angola Cables Press Release October 22, 2018 LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Multinational telecoms company, Angola Cables has announced that it has entered into a strategic business partnership with Silica Networks in Argentina and Silica Networks in Chile to connect their terrestrial fiber networks to the recently commissioned [...]
Angola Cables Announces Launch of SACS Subsea System By Chris Kelly, Total Telecom September 27, 2018 Angola Cables has confirmed the commercial launch of its South Atlantic Cable System (SACS), a new subsea cable system that will boost connectivity between Africa and South America. The new system will provide ultra-low latency services between the two [...]
First Subsea Cable Across South Atlantic Activated By Doug Madory, Dyn September 19, 2018 Yesterday marked the first time in recent Internet history that a new submarine cable carried live traffic across the South Atlantic, directly connecting South America to Sub-Saharan Africa. The SACS (South Atlantic Cable System built by Angola Cables achieved this feat around [...]
First-Ever Southern Transatlantic Cable In Service Soon By Duncan McLeod June 28, 2018 The first transatlantic broadband submarine cable in the southern hemisphere, the South Atlantic Cable System (Sacs), will begin carrying its first commercial traffic within the next three months, providing a more direct and lower-latency route between South Africa — and other African [...]