Specifications
| Length | 14,530 km |
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| Status | In Service |
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| Ready for Service | 2012 |
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| End of Service | 2037 |
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| Capacity | 14.5 Tbps |
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| Fiber Pairs | 4 |
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| Supplier | Alcatel-Lucent |
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| Landing Points | 13 |
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| Countries | 13 |
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Owners
Altice Portugal
Angola Cables
Bayobab
Broadband Infraco
Camtel
Cape Verde Telecom
Congo Telecom
Liquid Intelligent Technologies
Office Congolais de Poste et Télécommunication
PCCW
Tata Communications
Telecom Namibia
Telkom South Africa
Togo Telecom
Vodacom DRC
Vodafone
Vodafone Espana
Vodafone Ghana
Landing Points (13)
| Location |
Country |
Position |
| Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire |
CI Côte d'Ivoire |
5.3235°, -4.0262° |
| Accra, Ghana |
GH Ghana |
5.5583°, -0.2011° |
| El Goro, Canary Islands, Spain |
ES Spain |
27.9594°, -15.3987° |
| Lagos, Nigeria |
NG Nigeria |
6.4389°, 3.4232° |
| Limbe, Cameroon |
CM Cameroon |
4.0145°, 9.2085° |
| Lome, Togo |
?? Togo |
6.1260°, 1.2278° |
| Muanda, Congo, Dem. Rep. |
?? Dem. Rep. |
-5.9334°, 12.3499° |
| Pointe-Noire, Congo, Rep. |
?? Rep. |
-4.7791°, 11.8636° |
| Praia, Cape Verde |
?? Cape Verde |
14.9230°, -23.5212° |
| Sangano, Angola |
AO Angola |
-9.4901°, 13.2014° |
About the West Africa Cable System (WACS) Cable System
West Africa Cable System connects South Africa to the United Kingdom along the west coast of Africa with 15 landing points.