Brazil-Africa - Submarine Networks

SACS

The South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) is a submarine cable system connecting Sangano in Angola and Fortaleza in Brazil, the world's first submarine cable system across the South Atlantic.

The SACS cable system consists of 4 fiber pairs, with an initial design capacity of 40Tb/s (100Gb/s x 100 wavelengths x 4 fiber-pairs), supplied by NEC.

The SACS is owned and operated by Angola Cables, established in 2009 as a wholesale network operator and a joint venture of five Angolan operators Angola Telecom (51%), Unitel (31%), MSTelcom (9%), Movicel (6%) and Startel (3%).

In addition to its operations in Angola and other countries, Angola Cables owns and operates a cable landing station in Forteleza (Forteleza CLS) and a Tier III carrier-neutral data center in Forteleza (AngoNAP Forteleza).

The Forteleza CLS is also a landing station for Angola Cables' MONET cable system connecting Brazil and the United States, which was ready for service in December 2017.

The SACS cable system was ready for service on September 26^th, 2018.

In March 2023, Angola Cables rebranded its Brizilian operations as TelCables Brasil, aiming to increase and strengthen its local presence in Brazil and Latam, with full global support from the parent brand.

SACS Cable Map

SAIL

The South Atlantic Inter Link (SAIL) is a 6,000-km submarine cable system connecting Kribi, Cameroon with Fortaleza, Brazil，with a branch to Equatorial Guinea.

The SAIL cable system consists of four fiber pairs, each capable of transmitting 100 wavelengths with a bandwidth of 100 Gbit/s and delivering a design capacity of 32 Tbps.

SAIL Cable Route

The SAIL cable system is invested by CAMTEL of Cameroon, and China Unicom as the landing party in Brazil., Huawei Marine is the turn-key solutions provider for the SAIL cable system.

In Brazil, the SAIL cable system terminates at Telxius Fortaleza Cable Landing Station, seamlessly connecting with BRUSA and Sam-1 onwards to the US.

Marine installation of the SAIL cable system was successfully completed on September 4^th, 2018.

SAIL cable system enables connectivity among the following routes:

SAEx1

The South Atlantic Express (SAEx1) is a 72 Tbit/s submarine cable system connecting South Africa directly to the US, linking Cape Town in South Africa, Fortaleza in Brazil and Virginia Beach, Virginia in the US, with branches to Namibia and Saint Helena.

The SAEx1 cable system is building by SAEx International Ltd, based in Mauritius with a subsidiary company (SAEx SA (Pty) Ltd) in South Africa, is building the South Atlantic Express (SAEx) cable. The company is also planning the South Asia Express (SAEx2) , to form a unique 25000km submarine cable connecting Asia, Africa, South America and North America.

SABR

SABR is the first direct subsea cable system that connects South Africa to Brazil, and eventually to the US. SABR is set for commercial launch in 2020.

SABR cable route

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SAEx1

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