Telkom and PEACE Cable Company Launches New High-Speed Submarine Cable in Kenya
PEACE Cable, in collaboration with Telkom, Kenya’s third largest telecoms company, has landed a new submarine cable in Mombasa.
The PEACE Cable aims to provide more reliable and stable communication services between Africa, Europe, and Asia.
This new cable will link France to Pakistan via the Europe-Asia route, as well as Mombasa, Kenya.
It will provide the most direct connectivity route from Asia and East Africa to Europe via the Indian Ocean route. This will help to reduce existing communication delays between continents.
Exceptional speeds
The 15,000km long PEACE cable has a total capacity of 192Tbps and high speeds of 200 Gbps per single wavelength.
It provides Kenya with a strategic advantage in terms of more flexible and secure digital connection options, as well as stable data access.
Consumer demand for connectivity and data will continue to rise, opening up new markets for co-location data centers, content development networks, and over-the-top service providers in the country.
Mr. Mugo Kibati, CEO of Telkom, told the press that Telkom’s investment in submarine cables is strategic.
The telecommunications company considers Internet access to be a fundamental human right. Market demands drive interest in this type of delivery infrastructure.
The rapid growth in demand for Internet services such as cloud computing, streaming, and gaming has created an insatiable demand for reliable internet.
This initiative also meets the demand of customers for continuous service delivery with minimal interruptions.
Increasing business development
“We are proud to contribute to Kenya’s strategic evolution to become a digital economy, in line with the country’s Big 4 Agenda, which is heavily reliant on ICTs,” Mr. Kibati said.
He went on to say that they will improve processes, increase efficiencies, and increase consistency in service delivery to Kenyans.
This high-capacity cable will help Kenya and the region meet their current and future broadband capacity needs. It increases redundancy and shortens the transit time of our Kenyan connectivity to Asia and Europe.
It aids carriers in providing Kenyans with affordable services. This is consistent with Telkom’s long-term goal of successfully addressing the digital transformation. It is already a success in Kenya, as Telkom strives to become the region’s preferred technology partner.
PEACE take
“We are very proud to work with such an excellent partner as Telkom to jointly complete this successful landing in Kenya,” says Mr. SUN Xiaohua, COO of PEACE. He claims that in the future, PEACE will provide Kenya with more diverse digital connection options as well as high-speed, large-capacity, and stable data access opportunities.
Mr. SUN confirms that they will make every effort to increase business development in this region. The PEACE cable is Kenya’s sixth submarine cable to arrive.
It is followed by the Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE 1), SEACOM, The East African Marine System (TEAMS), the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy), and the Lower Indian Ocean NetWork II (LION II).
The cable will be extended to Singapore and Southern Africa in the second phase of PEACE. This increases bandwidth and connectivity all the way from its current African landing point in Mombasa to South Africa. It also opens up new markets for East African and Southern African Development Community cable partners (SADC).
