Omani National Telecom Operator, Omantel, has entered into a supply agreement with Xtera Communications and a turnkey subsea solution to construct a submarine cable linking Oman with Somaliland, Puntland and Ethiopia, CNN reported.
The new low-latency cable system, Gulf to Africa (G2A), will be developed in partnership with Ethio Telecom, Golis Telecom and Telesom Company and will connect Salalah in Oman to Bosaso in Puntland and Berbera in Somaliland with a terrestrial extension to Addis Ababa.
Collaborators expect G2A to bring content closer to end-users in Africa provide Somalia and Ethiopia with internet capacity, as well as access to cloud services and applications.
Designed for 20 Tbit/s of capacity with the latest 100G technology, the G2A system will optimize the connectivity costs in Africa and add much needed capacity to an under-served and fast growing region, it indicated.
Puntlandi.com