THINGS GO SWIMMINGLY FOR SAT-3/WASC/SAFE!Business Editors PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. AND PRETORIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2000 On the 17 June 1999, in Pretoria (South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. ), an international consortium of more that 40 telecommunications operators signed the construction and maintenance agreement for a new submarine cable See Telegraph. See See also: Cable Submarine system known as SAT-3/WASC/SAFE. Created in January 1998 from the combination of two earlier submarine cable project initiatives, SAFE (South Africa - Far East) and SAT-3/WASC (South Africa Telecommunications - West African West Africa A region of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea. It was largely controlled by colonial powers until the 20th century. West African adj. & n. Submarine Cable), the new project with a cost of US $600M and spanning a distance of over 28000 km will link 17 landing points in 15 countries from Malaysia and India to Portugal and Spain via South Africa. The contracts for construction of the system have been awarded to TSSL TSSL Tyco Submarine Systems Ltd. (USA) and Alcatel Submarine Systems (France). 5000 kilometres of cable and 220 repeaters have already been manufactured and accepted. The system will have a total ultimate capacity of 120 Gbits for the SAT-3/WASC segment and 80 Gbits for the SAFE segment. To secure the best route on the seabed, a route survey has been performed by Fugro SSI (1) See server-side include and single-system image. (2) (Small-Scale Integration) Less than 100 transistors on a chip. See MSI, LSI, VLSI and ULSI. 1. (electronics) SSI - small scale integration. 2. for the SAFE segment and is currently being performed by the UK company RACAL, for the SAT-3/WASC segment utilising three oceanographic survey ships. The work of laying the submarine cable will also be subcontracted to specialist companies. SAT-3/WASC/SAFE was conceived and promoted in competition with other African projects that have not yet achieved the necessary financing and partnership agreements to proceed. The promoters of SAT-3/WASC/SAFE made great efforts to explain the benefits of the project in order to generate the necessary interest and support of investors. Amongst these are a number of African operators who have obtained loans from international organisations, including the European Investment Bank European Investment Bank, nonprofit bank created in 1958 by the six founding countries of the European Economic Community (now part of the European Union [EU]). (EIB See NIST binary. ), these loans being guaranteed by first class financial institutions. The commercial use of the system is scheduled for December 2001. SAT-3/WASC/SAFE will connect Malaysia to Portugal and Spain routed via India, Mauritius, Reunion, South Africa, Angola, Gabon, Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal, and the Canary Islands. SAT-3/WASC/SAFE will improve security for connections between Europe and Asia by the creation of a new west to east route and will provide a response to the growing needs of telephone traffic as well as multimedia services and Internet. In addition, SAT-3/WASC/SAFE is set to provide the African continent with its first state of the art global optical fibre network, a step that will be instrumental in the economic development of the region to realise the objectives of the African Renaissance. please visit our website : http://www.safe-sat3.co.za/ |
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