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TMCNet: Alcatel-Lucent to extend WACS from Portugal to UK

[August 26, 2010]

Alcatel-Lucent to extend WACS from Portugal to UK

Aug 26, 2010 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- Alcatel-Lucent has been selected to extend the West Africa Cable System from Portugal to the UK using its optical technology.

Spanning 2,000km and operating at 40gigabit per second, this new section will increase the overall design capacity from 3.8 Terabit/s (Tbit/s) to 5.12 Tbit/s. The West Africa Cable System (WACS) consortium is composed of Angola Cables, Broadband Infraco, Cable & Wireless, Congo Telecom, MTN, Office Congolais des Postes et Telecommunications,Portugal Telecom / Cabo Verde Telecom, Tata Communications / Neotel, Telecom Namibia, Telkom South Africa, Togo Telecom and Vodacom.

With commercial service expected by 2011, WACS will provide Namibia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Togo and the Republic of Congo with direct access to the global submarine cable communication network. It will connect South Africa to the UK with landings in Namibia, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Cape Verde, the Canary Islands, and Portugal.

Under the terms of this contract extension, WACS will deploy generalized multiprotocol label switching capabilities providing automated service provisioning.

Kobus Stoeder, chairman of the WACS management committee, said: "The African continent is definitely one of the continents still yearning for affordable connectivity. Meeting the needs for increased capacity along the cable route, this network will enable the landing countries to be served by a new system offering greater capacity and lowering the cost of broadband access in support of innovative applications such as e-education and e-health that can positively impact peoples' lives.

"The Alcatel-Lucent solution optimally meets our key requirements for multi-vendor compatibility, network availability and traffic protection to deliver the highest service reliability." http://www.datamonitor.com Republication or redistribution, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without prior written consent. Datamonitor shall not be liable for errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon

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