Huawei Marine WACS Upgrade II Successfully Completed Huawei Marine Press Release February 1, 2019 Tianjin, China - Huawei Marine today announced completion of the West Africa Cable System (WACS) Upgrade II. The project was signed in February 2018 and successfully put into commercial use in October of the same year. The upgrade realized 32*100G wavelengths [...]
Traffic Limited on Angola's WACS Submarine Cable Due to Cable Damage By Telecompaper September 24, 2018 The submarine fibre optic cable of the WACS system of Angola Cables suffered two cuts, which caused a limit to traffic capacity, and increased latency and losses in the service packages, Angop reported. Angola Cables said action has been [...]
By Adeyemi Adepetun, All Africa November 1, 2017 After several investments worth over $1 billion (N306 billion), the nation's submarine cable system is still hampered by gross underutilisation. The cost of NITEL's South Atlantic 3 (SAT3) fibre optic cable, which now belongs to ntel, for instance is put at over $600 million. MTN's West African [...]
By Ismail Akwei, Africa News June 27, 2017 Internet connection in Congo-Brazzaville was restored on Saturday after 15 days of nationwide disruptions and slowdowns that started since June 9, 2017, after a damage to the country’s main submarine cables. It was restored ahead of the five-week projected period given by the technical team working on [...]
By Ismail Akwei, Africa News June 14, 2017 Congo-Brazzaville is facing nationwide internet disruptions and slowdowns which started on Friday, June 9, 2017, after a damage to the country’s main submarine cables. Network providers confirmed days after the outage that the problem was caused by a submarine cable cut off in the Atlantic Ocean near [...]
