The South Atlantic Inter Link (SAIL) (formerly referred to as Cameroon-Brazil Cable System, CBCS)[2] is a submarine communications cable in the South Atlantic Ocean linking Kribi, Cameroon with Fortaleza, Brazil.
| SAIL (South Atlantic Inter Link) | |
|---|---|
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| Owners: Camtel, China Unicom | |
| Landing points | |
| Design capacity | 32 Tbit/s[2] |
| Date of first use | Q3 2018 (ready for service)[3] |
Cable
editSAIL submarine cable project was jointly invested and constructed by China Unicom and Camtel. The cable landing points are operated by Camtel in Kribi and by China Unicom Brazil in Fortaleza. China Unicom provided project management and business operation support, while the engineering construction was contracted from Huawei Marine Networks. The whole project lasted for 14 months and was completed in August 2018.[1]
The cable measures approximately 6,000 km in length and contain four optical fibre pairs, each capable of transmitting 100 wavelengths with a bandwidth of 100 Gbit/s (gigabits per second), for a design capacity of 32 Tbit/s (terabits per second).[3][4][5] The project was financed through the Concessional Loan and Preferential Export Buyer’s Credit of China Exim Bank.[1]
SAIL is an intercontinental submarine cable across the South Atlantic sea area, connecting the continent of Africa and South America establishing new Internet channels for Africa-South America, Africa-North America and South America-Europe.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "The First International Submarine Cable in the South Atlantic Led by China Unicom Has Been Officially Put into Commercial Use". China Unicom Global Limited. 15 November 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ a b "Huawei Marine is contracted to build Cameroon-Brazil trans-Atlantic submarine cable to connect Africa to Latin America". press release. Huawei Marine Networks Co., Limited. 28 January 2014. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
- ^ a b "中国联通主导的首条南大西洋国际海底光缆全线贯通". China Unicom Global Limited. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ "China Unicom Group to manage submarine cable between Brazil and Cameroon". Macauhub. 6 October 2017. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ Maidment, Gary (25 April 2018). "SAIL the Atlantic With CAMTEL". Light Reading. Retrieved 1 May 2018.