GLO-1 (cable system)
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The GLO-1 (Globacom-1) submarine communications cable is a cable system along the west coast of Africa between Nigeria and the UK.
The submarine cable system is 9,800 km long, and became operational in 2010 with a minimum capacity of 640 Gbit/s.
A project of Globacom, Nigeria's 2nd largest telecoms provider, total capacity of the system is now advertised as 2.5 Tbits/s. The cable's link To Ghana was turned up in April, 2011[1] .
[edit] Landing points
The main cable landing points are:
- Lagos, Nigeria.
- Accra, Ghana
- Dakar, Senegal
- Nouakchott, Mauritania
- Casablanca, Morocco
- Sesimbra, Portugal
- Vigo, Spain
- Bude, UK
[edit] See also
List of international submarine communications cables
Individual cable systems off the west coast of Africa include:
[edit] References
- ^ "Glo 1 cable launches in Ghana". AfricaBrains. http://www.africanbrains.net/2011/04/15/glo-1-cable-launches-in-ghana/. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
- "Nigeria - Glo-One Submarine Cable will be ready for Launch in March 2009". http://www.itu.int/treg/PermaLink.aspx?guid=96b0f662-6c25-4328-9e7c-36732c5e25a6. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
- "GLO-1 Added to Undersea Cables". http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/our-work/blogs/glo-1-added-undersea-cables. Retrieved 2009-06-16.[dead link]
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