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{{short description|Submarine communications cable in the South Atlantic Ocean}}

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TITLE=STATE OF SUBSEA 2013 PRESENTATION AUTHOR=ANGOLA CABLES WORK=PRESENTATION ACCESSDATE=25 OCTOBER 2013, | first_traffic = Mid-2018 (ready for service)Angola Cables Newsletter "Data Gathering Meeting at PTC '15" from 7 January 2015| design_capacity = 40 Tb/s| lit_capacity =| built_by =| defunct =| landings = * Sangano, Angola

• Fernando de Noronha, Brazil
• Fortaleza, Brazil| area_served = South Atlantic| owner = Angola Cables| homepage =| footnotes =

}}The South Atlantic Cable System or SACS (),WEB,weblink Cabo Angola emite garantia de 205 milhões para fibra ótica, 15 October 2014, 22 October 2014, Lusa - Portuguese News Agency, Notícias ao Minuto, is a submarine communications cable in the South Atlantic Ocean linking Luanda, Angola with Fortaleza, Brazil with a leg connecting the Brazilian archipelago of Fernando de Noronha as well.WEB,weblink registration, Telebras provides details of new submarine cable network, 8 March 2012, article, TeleGeography, 16 January 2013, WEB,weblink Angola Cables announces launch of SACS subsea system, 27 September 2018, article, Submarine Telecoms Forum, 16 January 2013, It is the first low latency routing between Africa and South America.The undersea cable measures 6,165 km in length and has been designed with 100 Gbps coherent WDM technology - with 4 fiber pairs and offers a total capacity of 40 Tbit/s between Brazil and Angola.In September 2018 Angola Cables announced that the SACS cable was on-line and ready to begin commercial operation.NEWS,weblink Angola Cables lights up world's first submarine cable linking Africa to the Americas, 2018-10-02, en, It was also reported at this point that it was NEC who was supplying the technology for the cable.NEWS,weblink NEC completes construction of SACS cable, 2018-10-02, en, With SACS cable now in operation, data traffic between Angola and Brazil will no longer have to pass through Europe and the US, as was the case previously. The South Atlantic Cable System is owned and operated by Angola Cables.It is expected that the SACS will cut data traffic costs between South America, Africa and onwards to Asia by 80%.WEB,weblink Brazil-Angola undersea cable link planned, 28 March 2012, article, Global Telecoms Business, 16 January 2013, In Fortaleza the SACS is interconnected to Seabras-1 while the Angolan end provides onward connectivity by the SAT-3/WASC cable.According to its initiators it will have a lot of demand, mainly because it will be the first undersea cable in the South Atlantic linking the African continent to Latin America.WEB,weblink Undersea cable to link Brazil and Angola, 26 March 2012, article, Macauhub, 16 January 2013, The only other planned cable to potentially compete with SACS is the South Atlantic Express cable planned to enter service in 2020.WEB,weblink SHG Signs Mou with Saex to Deliver Submarine Cable Project, 27 October 2017, Construction costs are expected to amount to $278 million,WEB,weblink Angola-Brazil fibre optic cable starts operations, 17 December 2012, article, telecompaper, 16 January 2013, funded by Angola Cables, a consortium of major Angolan telecoms companies (Angola Telecom with 51% of the capital, Unitel with 31%, MSTelcom with 9%, Movicel with 6%, and Startel with 3%).

Maps

File:Map of South Atlantic Cable System route.svg|Route of the South Atlantic Cable System

See also

• WACS

References

External links

• Angola Cables
• Submarine Cable Map
• Greg's Cable Map

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