Seacom, the venture capital company laying a 1.28Tbps cable down the East Coast of Africa, has started shipping equipment to final destinations along the African East Coast.
The company says the shipping of terrestrial equipment commenced last month with the dispatch of containerised cable station modules for two of Seacom's East African cable stations from a factory in New Jersey, in the US, to their as-yet undisclosed locations.
The company adds that the "first cable load remains on track to be loaded later this month" with the first length slipping into the Indian Ocean shortly afterwards.
The Seacom cable will consist of two fibre pairs between SA and Mombasa, Kenya. On the way, the cable lands at Maputo, in Mozambique; Toliary, in Madagascar; and Dar-es-Salaam, in Tanzania.
The cable from Mombasa to Marseilles has a 640Gbps capacity (and lands in Djibouti, while passing through Egypt).
The link from Dar-es-Salaam to Mumbai, in India, will also have a 640Gbps capacity and may branch to Fujairah, in the United Arab Emirates.
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