SAFE (cable system)
| South Africa Far East, SAFE | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Landing points 1. Melkbosstrand, South Africa 2. Mtunzini, KwaZulu-Natal , South Africa (branch)
3. Saint-Paul, Réunion
4. Baie du Jacotet, Mauritius
5. Kochi, India (branch)
6. Penang, Malaysia
| |
| Total length | 13,104 km |
| Currently lit capacity | 440 Gigabits per second |
| Technology | wavelength division multiplexing |
The South Africa Far East cable is an optical fiber submarine communications cable linking Melkbosstrand, South Africa to Penang, Malaysia.
It was commissioned in 2002 and built by
wavelength division multiplexing
.
It has a total length of 13,104 kilometres (8,142 mi) and is one of a pair of cables—
SAT-3/WASC being the other—that provides high-speed digital links between Europe, West and Southern Africa, and the Far East. Together with SAT-3/WASC, it also provides redundancy for other cables travelling through the Middle East
.
It has landing points[1] at:
- SAT-3cable systems)
- Mtunzini, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (branch)
- Saint Paul, Réunion
- Savanne, Mauritius
- SEA-ME-WE 3cable system)
- SEA-ME-WE 3cable systems)
References
- ^ Safe-Sat3 - under "System Information" Archived 2013-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Official SAT-3/WASC/SAFE Homepage
- SAFE on Greg's Cable Map