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| Africa Undersea Cables |
A revolution is underway in South Africa and for the most part, it us going unnoticed. All major telecoms companies in South Africa i.e. MTN, Vodacom, CellC, Neotel and Telkom have invested heavily in fibre optic cable technology which is currently being laid throughout the country. Digging for the laying of fibre has been taking place in almost every city and town in South Africa as the country gears up for the rise in bandwidth consumption.
The African continent and specifically South Africa will see a number of undersea fibre optic cables landing on its shores, both on the east and west costs of the country. This undersea fibre is aimed at giving South Africa direct internet connectivity to the rest of the world, thus increasing the speeds at which users can access the internet. The undersea cable has therefore made it necessary to lay fibre on land in order to fully leverage the resulting bandwidth throughput. It is predicted that by the end of 2012, all the networks in South Africa would have laid in excess of 15,000 km of fibre across the country.
The SEACOM cable, which is already live and active, can deliver up to 1280 gigabits of data per second and in the longterm, as the underground fibre comes on stream, the benefits of this increased bandwidth will mean faster and faster internet upload and download speeds. Depending on where one lives in South Africa, internet users may already be experiencing improved speeds, whether they are connecting via fixed or mobile platforms. Fibre optic will completely revolutionize how South Africa interacts with the rest of the world via the internet and the benefits will be felt long after the current digging has stopped.
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