The first direct optical connection between the USA and Africa has been tested using the trans-Atlantic SACS cable. SACS, owned and managed by Angola Cables, operates between Fortaleza, Brazil and Luanda, Angola and is connected to the AngoNAP Data Centre. The subsea wavelengths were deployed with Nokia's 1830 Photonic Service Interconnect (PSI) data centre interconnect (DCI) platform utilising the PSE-3. In November 2019, Angola Cables and Nokia confirmed the fibre-optic routing between Angola and Miami was available for commercial use. At the time the field trial leveraged Nokia's 1830 Photonic Service Switch wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) platform.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 20, 2020 07:41 UTC