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| Cable type | Fibre-optic |
|---|---|
| Design capacity | 180 Tbit/s (11.25 Tbit/s per fiber pair) |
| Built by | Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) |
| Area served | Africa, Middle East, and Europe[1] |
| Owner(s) | Consortium |
| Website | www |
2Africa is an international submarine telecommunications cable that circumnavigates the coastline of Africa to interconnect Europe and the Middle East.
The system will be one of the first to use spatial division multiplexing (SDM1) and has a design capacity of 180 Tbps across 16 fiber pairs.[2][3] When complete, 2Africa will be the largest subsea cable in the world, at 45,000 kilometers long, connecting 46 cable landing stations across 33 countries.[4]
2Africa passes from Europe through the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean, and then back into Europe via the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.[2]
The system is to be constructed by Alcatel Submarine Networks[5] and is intended to be operational in Q4 2024.[4]
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