SAIL (cable system)

SAIL (South Atlantic Inter Link)
Owners:
Camtel, China Unicom, Telefónica
Landing points
Design capacity 32 Tbit/s[1]
Date of first use Q4 2017 (ready for service)[1]

The South Atlantic Inter Link (SAIL) (formerly referred to as Cameroon-Brazil Cable System or CBCS)[1] is a planned submarine communications cable in the South Atlantic Ocean linking Kribi, Cameroon with Fortaleza, Brazil.

The project is led by Huawei Marine Networks for China Unicom and Camtel. It is designed to decrease internet traffic latency between Africa and the Americas.[1][2]

The cable will measure approximately 6,000 km in length and will contain four 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)[2][3][4]. Construction costs are expected to amount to $130 million (80 billion CFA), $81 million (50 billion CFA) of which are to be funded by Exim Bank of China with the remainder being contributed by Camtel.[5] Camtel on its part has received funding worth $17 million (20 billion CFA) from Unicom.

On October 22nd, 2015 Huawei Marine announced that it has been awarded with the contract to construct the SAIL cable starting in early 2016.[6] As of April 2018, Camtel estimated completion by third quarter 2018.[4]

SAIL will be the fourth submarine cable to land in Cameroon, after WACS, ACE and SAT-3/WASC, providing diversified connectivity to the West Coast of Africa and Europe.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "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.
  2. 1 2 Ocean News (2017-01-16). "South Atlantic Inter Link (SAIL) to Establish New Internet Route". Ocean News. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  3. ↑ "China Unicom Group to manage submarine cable between Brazil and Cameroon". Macauhub. 6 October 2017. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  4. 1 2 Maidment, Gary (25 April 2018). "SAIL the Atlantic With CAMTEL". Light Reading. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  5. ↑ Armel Ebellè (19 October 2015). "Cameroun: Un câble sous-marin va désormais relier l'Afrique à l'Amérique du Sud". Camer.be. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  6. ↑ "Huawei Marine is contracted to build Cameroon-Brazil trans-Atlantic submarine cable to connect Africa to Latin America". press release. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 22 October 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
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