{"id":10899,"date":"2011-03-26T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"eassy-submarine-cable-upgraded-to-4-72tbps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10899-eassy-submarine-cable-upgraded-to-4-72tbps","title":{"rendered":"EASSy submarine cable upgraded to 4.72Tbps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WIOCC today announced that the design capacity of the Eastern  Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) has been increased to 4.72Tbps.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is based on the latest 40Gbps wavelength technology from  supplier Alcatel-Lucent, which enables 59 x 40Gbps to be configured on  each of EASSy&rsquo;s two fibre-pairs,&rdquo; WIOCC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;EASSy now represents more than 70 per cent of all the international  fibre-optic inventory on Africa&rsquo;s east coast (the international capacity  of alternatives TEAMS and SEACOM being 1.2 and 0.6Tbps respectively),  and it still offers the only direct route between eastern Africa and  Europe &ndash; via the African coastline, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean,&rdquo;  said WIOCC.<\/p>\n<p>The EASSy Management Committee has also announced that EASSy&rsquo;s  operational capacity will be more than doubled at the end of this year,  driven by faster-than-expected capacity uptake by shareholders and other  domestic and international telcos and ISPs.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Article courtesy of MyBroadband &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/19321-EASSy-upgraded-472Tbps.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"EASSy upgraded to 4.72Tbps\">EASSy upgraded to 4.72Tbps<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC) announces EASSy design capacity increase to 4.72Tbps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}