 Bharti Airtel and 15 other global telcos announced the launch of a $ 263 million, 10,000 km submarine cable system connecting East Africa with the rest of the world.
The system is named as EASSy cable system and has a capacity of 1.4 tera bites per second. It is considered to be the first east coast system to connect a direct route to Europe thereby promising to deliver data traffic faster to key Internet peering points in Europe and North America.
"The commencement of EASSy cable system is a step to create a robust undersea cable infrastructure for our customers," said Ajay Chitkara, chief executive officer, global data business, Bharti Airtel.
Some of the other players in the consortium include British Telecom, Etisalat, Saudi Telecom, MTN International Group and Telkom South Africa. |