The longest subsea cable in the world
Design
The cable system has a design capacity of up to 180Tbps on 16 fibre pairs on key parts of the system.
Technology
The 2Africa cable has been designed to improve resilience and maximise performance, including the option of a seamless optical crossing between East Africa and Europe.
Global Reach
Connecting 46 cable landing stations in 33 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe.
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Flexible and scalable capacity
2Africa is a new open-access subsea cable system serving Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It interconnects 20+ African countries and delivers direct access into European content hubs.
Our participation in 2Africa enables us to provide flexible, scalable capacity and spectrum from 1Gbps to 1Tbps. This continues our commitment to providing large capacity users with the resilient network they need to support their customers’ ever-growing bandwidth requirements. Our investment both future-proofs our network capabilities and provides additional resilience to maximise uptime for our critical infrastructure.
Other WIOCC Networks
Durban Landing Station
Open Access Data Centres (OADC), A WIOCC Group Company, is the landing station for the 2Africa subsea cable system in South Africa. This landing, into the 4MW-capable OADC Durban facility in Amanzimtoti, is the only 2Africa landing into KZN and the fourth on the coast of South Africa – two in the Western Cape (Yzerfontein and Duynefontein) and one in the Eastern Cape (Gqeberha).
- Faster Internet Speeds
- Reduced Internet Prices
- Improved User Experience
