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Alcatel-Lucent to link Africa to Brazil
06 September 2010
Alcatel-Lucent has won the contract from South Africa’s eFive to install a submarine cable from Africa to South America
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A South African company, eFive Telecoms, has selected Alcatel-Lucent to build a new submarine cable network connecting the west coast of Africa to South America.
The system will be made up of two trunks. The first will link South Africa to Angola and Nigeria, and the second trunk will connect Angola to Brazil.
The network equipment maker will be responsible for the project end-to-end, including the system design, manufacturing, installation and commissioning. It will also maintain the system through its Atlantic private maintenance agreement, which covers over 100,000 kilometres of submarine cable infrastructure from the west coast of Africa to the Caribbean and Greenland.
According to Lawrence Mulaudzi, managing director of eFive Telecoms, the proposed submarine network will also offer cable route diversity to South America.
eFive Telecoms is a business partner of Main One, a Nigerian company which in July 2010 put into service a cable from Europe to Nigeria and Ghana. GTB