Brazil-Africa Submarine Cable Systems

Submarine cable systems connecting Brazil and Africa

Title	Published Date	Hits
South Atlantic Cable System Steps Up To Support Major Telco Operators And Global Content Providers	22-10-21	Hits: 488
AmLight Activates100G End-to-End Links between the U.S., Brazil and South Africa via SACS+WACS	06-03-20	Hits: 884
Angola Cables and Nokia Trial 300G Wavelength through SACS and MONET	02-02-20	Hits: 817
Angola Cables Activates Direct Optical Connection on SACS and MONET	27-11-19	Hits: 896
SACS Cable to Boost Connectivity in Africa via Teraco Data Centres	21-11-18	Hits: 1029
7 Reasons Why SACS is a Game Changer	31-10-18	Hits: 1079
Angola Cables Enters into Strategic Partnership with Silica Networks	26-10-18	Hits: 935
SAEx Selects ASN as Venodor for its SAEx Cable System	04-10-18	Hits: 1957
SAEx Cooperates with Sparkle to Connect South Africa to USA	01-10-18	Hits: 1871
NEC Completes World's First Submarine Cable Crossing the South Atlantic	01-10-18	Hits: 1469
SACS Cable System Goes Live	29-09-18	Hits: 1994
South Atlantic Inter Link (SAIL) Connecting Cameroon to Brazil Fully Connected	05-09-18	Hits: 2030
St Helena Government Secures €21.5 million European Development Fund for SAEx Cable Landing	23-07-18	Hits: 1210
South Atlantic Express (SAEx) to land in Virginia Beach with ACA International (ACA)	23-07-18	Hits: 1436
Angola Cables Wants to Connect BRICS Countries	13-07-18	Hits: 1925
Angola Cables Expands its Global IP Network	28-05-18	Hits: 1211

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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 consists of 4 fiber pairs, with an initial design capacity of 40Tb/s (100Gb/s x 100 wavelengths x 4 fiber-pairs).

The SACS is owned by Angola Cables, which is joint venture of five Angolan operators Angola Telecom (51%), Unitel (31%), MSTelcom (9%), Movicel (6%) and Startel (3%).

It is said, Telebras is a partner of Angola Cables to offer cable landing for the SACS.

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:

São Paulo - Lagos
São Paulo - Cape Town
São Paulo - Johannesburg
São Paulo - Lisbon
São Paulo - London
Miami - Lagos
Miami - Cape Town
Miami - Johannesburg
Asburn, Virginia- Lagos
Asburn, Virginia - Cape Town
Asburn, Virginia - Johannesburg

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