Called Seacom 2.0, the system will be one of the highest-capacity undersea broadband cables ever built, offering 48 fibre pairs and over 2 000Tbit/s in speed design capacity.
The new system will connect the Indian Ocean basin, the Middle East, the Mediterranean Sea and southern Europe, Seacom said in a statement shared with TechCentral on Thursday. Seacom announced the plans at Submarine Networks World 2025 in Singapore.
Seacom deployed its first cable system in 2009, a move that resulted in internet access prices in South Africa declining sharply and prompted internet service providers led by Mweb to introduce uncapped ADSL services for the first time.