{"id":207715,"date":"2017-10-26T18:30:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=207715"},"modified":"2017-10-26T18:30:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:30:17","slug":"work-begins-on-new-submarine-cable-for-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/207715\/work-begins-on-new-submarine-cable-for-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Work begins on new submarine cable for South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mauritius registered company, IOX Cable and Alcatel Submarine Networks have commenced work on a new submarine IOX Cable System.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/networks.nokia.com\/news\/2017\/alcatel-submarine-networks-and-iox-cable-ltd-announce-contract-force-and-commencement-work-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The cable<\/a> will be 8,850km long and will be completed in 2019. It will connect Mauritius and Rodrigues to the east coast of South Africa, and will \u201cenhance communication capabilities along the India-to-South Africa route\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The system will deliver an ultimate design capacity of over 54 terabits per second and will also reinforce Mauritius as a hub in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a significant achievement in making the Indian Ocean islands a key gateway between Asia and Africa with onward connectivity to Europe, Middle East, and the Americas,\u201d IOX said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/204988\/dstv-customers-in-a-complex-can-now-get-signal-through-their-fibre-line\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DStv customers in a complex can now get signal through their fibre line<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanning more than 8,850 km, the IOX Cable System will be the first open access cable system in the region and is targeted to be completed in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":169937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5553],"tags":[1633,12511],"class_list":["post-207715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-alcatel","tag-iox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207717,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207715\/revisions\/207717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}