{"id":4275,"date":"2022-04-04T03:25:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T03:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appsaf.apieproject.com\/news\/?p=4275"},"modified":"2022-04-04T03:25:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T03:25:14","slug":"undersea-cable-market-steams-ahead-in-africa-and-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appsaf.apieproject.com\/news\/2022\/04\/04\/undersea-cable-market-steams-ahead-in-africa-and-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Undersea cable market steams ahead in Africa and Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three major submarine projects delivering hitherto unserved capacity and throughput across Africa and the Middle East have been revealed, satisfying surging digital demands regionally, as well as cost-effectively improving connectivity to Europe, the Americas and Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>EASSy, the 10,000km submarine cable system traversing Africa\u2019s east and south coasts, is now using Ciena\u2019s GeoMesh Extreme, powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent optical technology, to increase capacity and performance in sub-Saharan Africa. 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