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Equiano

Equiano cable system is the third private international cable owned by Google and the 14th subsea cable invested by Google. 

Equiano connects Portugal and South Africa, running along the West Coast of Africa, with branching units along the way that can be used to extend connectivity to additional African countries. The first branch is expected to land in Nigeria. 

Named for Olaudah Equiano, a Nigerian-born writer and abolitionist who was enslaved as a boy, the Equiano cable is state-of-the-art infrastructure based on space-division multiplexing (SDM) technology, with 12 fiber pairs and design capacity of 144Tbps, approximately 20 times more network capacity than the last cable built to serve this region. The SDM technology was first deployed in Google's second private subsea cable, Dunant.

Equiano will be the first subsea cable to incorporate optical switching at the fiber-pair level, rather than the traditional approach of wavelength-level switching.

A contract to build the Equiano cable with Alcatel Submarine Networks was signed in Q4 2018, and the first phase of the project, connecting South Africa with Portugal, is expected to be completed in 2022.

 

Equiano Cable Map
Equiano’s planned route and branching units, Source: Google

 

Title Published Date Hits
Equiano Cable Lands in Sesimbra, Portugal 27-05-22 Hits: 509
Equiano Subsea Cable Lands in Lagos, Nigeria 22-04-22 Hits: 604
Liquid Acquires a Fiber Pair on Equiano Cable System 31-03-22 Hits: 674
Equiano Subsea Cable Lands in Togo, First Stop in Africa 22-03-22 Hits: 873
Paratus and Telecom Namibia to Land Equiano Cable in Namibia 22-02-21 Hits: 1690
WIOCC Builds New Cable Landing Station in Lagos for Google's Equiano Cable 17-02-21 Hits: 1870
Telecom Egypt signs agreement with St Helena Government to provide it with its first subsea solution 03-11-20 Hits: 1435
Google's Equiano Cable to Land at Telkom's Melkbosstrand CLS in South Africa 02-04-20 Hits: 3008
Liquid Telecom to Build Cable Landing Station for Equiano in DR Congo 12-03-20 Hits: 1915
Google's Equiano Cable Aims to Connect the Canary Islands 01-08-19 Hits: 2320
Equiano Cable to Connect St Helena 30-07-19 Hits: 2976
Goolge Unveils Equiano Subsea Cable 08-07-19 Hits: 3164

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