Airtel lands 2Africa Pearls subsea cable in India, connecting country to Africa and Europe via West Asia
Bharti Airtel (Airtel) on Thursday mentioned it has landed the 2Africa Pearls cable within the nation, connecting India to Africa and Europe through West Asia.
Airtel is the touchdown accomplice for the 2Africa Pearls cable in India. That is in partnership with the 2Africa Pearls’ buyers – center3 and Meta, the corporate mentioned including that 2Africa Pearls brings over 100 Tbps (terabits per second) of worldwide capability to India. With this funding, Airtel has additional diversified its world community to assist India’s digital development ambitions.
“We’re aggressively diversifying our world community and lately landed the SEA-WE-ME-6 cable in Chennai and Mumbai. We are going to proceed investing in world cable methods and future-proof our community with an intention to ship excessive uptime, reliability, and superior high quality community to our clients,” Sharat Sinha, Director and Chief Government Officer – Airtel Enterprise, mentioned.
2Africa Pearls is part of the 2Africa cable system, which would be the world’s longest subsea cable system when accomplished, spanning over 45,000 kilometres connecting Asia to Africa and Europe by means of West Asia.
The 2Africa cable system is led by a consortium of Bayobab, center3, China Cell Worldwide, Meta, Orange, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone Group, and WIOCC, whereas Alcatel Submarine Networks is liable for manufacturing and set up of the cable.
Airtel’s world community spans 400,000 Rkms (route kilometres) throughout 50 nations and 5 continents. The corporate has investments in 34 cables globally with a number of the latest ones together with 2Africa, Southeast Asia-Japan Cable 2 (SJC2) and Equiano.
Aside from these cables that join India to key areas like APAC, Europe, West Asia and US, Airtel’s world subsea community investments additionally embody massive cable methods like i2i Cable Community (i2icn), Europe India Gateway (EIG), IMEWE, SEA-ME-WE-4, AAG, Unity, EASSy, Gulf Bridge Worldwide (GBI) and Center East North Africa Submarine Cable (MENA Cable) amongst many others, the corporate added.
