José de Carvalho da Rocha, Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technologies, informed this Thursday, in Luanda, that the operational entrance, as well as the commercialization of SACS, will happen in February 2019 and will revolutionize telecommunications in the country.
The official guaranteed that the objective is to improve and speed up communications in this international access, which until now have been subject to constant complaints, according to which they are very slow and expensive. “This access will allow improvements in the quality of communication, besides being an important milestone for our country, being the first cable that connects Africa and South America, which represents a substantial gain“Said the minister.
Yes, Antonio Nunes, the CEO of Angola Cables, advances that SACS is ready to go online and open to traffic. The new digital information circuit is the first and fastest link between the African continent and the Americas, with the lowest latency and the ability to provide more direct routing for Internet traffic in the Southern Hemisphere.
According to António Nunes, the country's capital will connect to London and Miami with approximately 128 milliseconds of latency. These two main content hubs, will position Angola as a strategic point to serve the transatlantic region with low latency and resilient connections.
Direct communications between Africa and the Americas are estimated to have several advantages worldwide for Internet service providers (ISPs), cloud service providers (CSPs), and top content providers (OTTs) that use these connections.
