SEACOM (African cable system)

SEACOM
Owners:
Key people:
Oliver Fortuin
Group Chief Executive Officer[2]
Landing points
see the landing points section
Total length17,000 kilometres (10,563 mi)
Design capacity12 Tbit/s
Currently lit capacity4.2 Tbit/s[3]
TechnologyFiber optics
Date of first useJuly 23, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-07-23)
Websiteseacom.com
SEACOM's logo

SEACOM launched Africa's first broadband submarine cable system along the continent's Southern coasts in 2009. SEACOM is privately owned and operated.[1]

  1. ^ a b Duncan McLeod (23 August 2018). "Seacom 'no comment' on FibreCo 'acquisition' talks". Tech Central South Africa. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  2. ^ Sibahle Malinga (10 December 2020). "MTN's Oliver Fortuin appointed Seacom group CEO". ITWeb South Africa. Johannesburg, South Africa. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  3. ^ Tech Central (4 August 2020). "Seacom to double capacity on surging Internet demand". Tech Central South Africa. Retrieved 14 February 2022.