Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 22 | Page 61

INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cabling POWERED BY South Atlantic Cable System goes live ///////////////////////////// SACS OFFER A HIGH QUALITY OF SERVICE AND IMPROVED LATENCY OF UP TO 60% OVER CURRENT ROUTING OPTIONS. T he South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) is now on-stream and open for commercial traffic. The new digital information highway is the first and fastest link between Africa and the Americas with the lowest latency and will provide a more direct routing for internet traffic in the Southern Hemisphere. www.intelligentcio.com The Angola Cables owned SACS has been manufactured and powered by NEC Corporation and is one of the most advanced submarine telecommunications systems to go into commercial operation connecting Angola and Brazil. Data transfer speeds will be greatly improved (five times faster than existing cable routings), reducing latency from Fortaleza (Brazil) to Luanda (Angola) from 350ms to 63ms. Luanda will also connect to London and Miami with around 128 milliseconds latency. These two major content hubs will position Angola as a strategic point to serve the transatlantic region with low latency and resilient connections. INTELLIGENTCIO 61