Subsea Cables & Internet Infrastructure

Term: three years. NRC: $8,500. Delivery: 4-6 weeks. Remark: Equiano has the lowest latency between Capetown and Lisbon. A point: LS1, Lisbon Equinix. Z point: CT1, Capetown, SA. Customer responsible for cross connects. 

This offer is for early stage ISPs that find 100G waves too expensive and worry about potential down time on an unprotected point-to-point optical service. This route protected 50G point-to-point Ethernet circuit rides Africa's most reliable cable, Equiano, which has had zero wet segment outages since it went live in February, 2023. The 2Africa cable provides the protect path. End points are OADC Lagos and LS1 Lisbon. Term is 2 years. MPLS restoration. Customer is responsible for cross connects. 

LS1/CT1; $17,500 MRC; Two year term. LS1/OADC; $17,500 MRC; Two year term.

LS1/PAIX Accra; 100G; Three Years; $25K MRC. London/Lagos; 10G; Three Years; $10K MRC. 2Africa cross connect charges are limited to $150 per month and the cable's reliability will be much better than SAT-3, MainOne, WACS, and ACE. It is buried deeper with better designed back haul and avoids the Congo and the Le Trou Sans Fond canyons. Note the Red Sea segment from Egypt to Oman is incomplete. There is no schedule for its completion.