wiredInUSA december 2018

Strategic network partnership

António Nunes

Multinational telecoms company Angola Cables has announced a strategic business partnership with Silica Networks in Argentina and Chile to connect terrestrial fiber networks to the recently commissioned South Atlantic Cable System (SACS). SACS will be Silica Networks’ preferred route in the Southern Hemisphere, providing fiber operators and content providers in Argentina and Chile with a direct route between South America and Africa, with onward connections to Asia. Angola Cables CEO António Nunes said: “SACS is already starting to function as a strategic point of connection, for the South Atlantic region, for South American operators interested in reachingmarkets in the east, at latencies five times lower than those that exist in the market today. The SACS cable will enable Africa to become an important bridge and pivot point for

the exchange of information and data between east and west.”

Horácio Martinez, CEO of Silica Networks, commented: “This is a milestone for the digital economies of Argentina and Chile as it opens up new fronts for entrepreneurship for operators, fiber optic networks, and broadband providers accessing the high capacity services provided by SACS and Angola Cables to the African and eastern markets.” digital connectivity between Argentina, Brazil and Chile with a network that crosses the Andes at four points and approaches São Paulo by two routes — a terrestrial and a submarine network. Nunes added: “This connection will certainly boost business development in the Latin American, African, Middle and Far Eastern markets.” Silica Networks provides

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wiredInUSA - December 2018