EASSy

The Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) is an underseafibre optic cable system connecting countries in Eastern Africa to the rest of the world.

EASSy runs from Mtunzini in South Africa to Port Sudan in Sudan, with landing points in nine countries and is connected to at least ten landlocked countries — which will no longer have to rely on satellite Internet access to carry voice and data services.

EASSy was the highest capacity system serving sub-Saharan Africa until the commissioning of WACS. It has a 2 fibre-pair configuration with a design capacity of more than 10 terabit per second (Tbit/s).^[1] It is the first to deliver direct connectivity between east Africa and Europe / North America. It is the only system with built-in resilience end-to-end. EASSy interconnects with multiple international submarine cable networks for onward connectivity to Europe, the Americas, and Asia.^[2]

The project, partially funded by the World Bank, was initiated in January 2003, when a handful of companies investigated its feasibility. The cable entered service on 16 July 2010,^[3] with commercial service starting on 30 July 2010.^[4]

• MoU signature – December 2003
• Detailed feasibility study – March 2004
• Data gathering meeting – June 2005
• C&MA drafting finalization – March 2006
• Supply contract award – September 2006
• Registration/incorporation of SPV – January 2007
• Construction and maintenance agreement (Shareholders' Agreement) Signature (C&MA) – 12 October 2006 to 12 February 2007
• Financial closure – March 2007
• Supply contract signature – March 2007
• Construction Started – March 2008
• Cable manufacture complete – November 2009
• Marine laying commencing – December 2009
• Construction complete – April 2010
• Live – July 2010

• West Indian Ocean Cable Company WIOCC, que comprende:
  • Redes de Fibra Óptica de Botsuana (BOFINET)
  • DALKOM, Somalia
  • Telecomunicaciones de Yibuti
  • Gilat Satcom Nigeria
  • Sistema de cable de Seychelles
  • Autoridad de Comunicaciones de Lesotho
  • Onatel Burundi
  • TMCEL Mozambique
  • Telkom Kenia
  • Compañía Libia de Telecomunicaciones y Tecnologías de la Información (LPTIC)
  • Liquid Telecom
  • Uganda Telecom Limited
  • Zantel, Tanzania
  • TelOne Zimbabwe
• Grupo MTN
• Sudán​
• Vodacom
• Telkom Sudáfrica
• Corporación de Telecomunicaciones de Botsuana
• Grupo BT
• Sistemas Marinos Globales
• Cables de Comoras
• Telma Madagascar
• Etisalat
• PIE
• Telecomunicaciones de Mauricio
• STC Arabia Saudita
• Bharti Airtel
• Liquid Telecom
• Compañía de Telecomunicaciones de Tanzania Limitada

Los puntos de aterrizaje del cable son: ^{[ 5 ]}

• Puerto Sudán , Sudán
• Yibuti
• Mogadiscio , Somalia
• Mombasa , Kenia
• Moroni , Comoras
• Dar es Salaam , Tanzania
• Toliary , Madagascar
• Maputo , Mozambique
• Mtunzini , Sudáfrica

• AS
• LEÓN
• Principal Uno
• SAT-2
• SAT-3/WASC
• SEGURO
• SEACOM
• EQUIPOS
• WACS
• BRICS
• Australia West Express (AWE)

• "Retraso de un año en la instalación del cable submarino en África Oriental" , Sudan Tribune , 4 de febrero de 2006.
• "Kenia: El gobierno da un ultimátum para el proyecto del cable" , The East African Standard , 17 de mayo de 2006
• "África resuelve el debate sobre telecomunicaciones con el proyecto EASSy" , Infoworld , 12 de junio de 2006
• "Alcatel gana el contrato de EASSy" , IT Web , 12 de julio de 2006
• "Kenia aspira a tener su propio cable de internet" , BBC News , 8 de septiembre de 2006.
• "El proyecto del cable marino 'se completará según lo previsto'"." . Consultado el 16 de junio de 2009 .

• Sitio web oficial de EASsy
• WIOCC - el mayor inversor de EASSy
• Presentación sobre EASSy a cargo de E. Yonazi, Secretaría de la Comunidad de África Oriental.