Since its launch in 2018, Angola’s South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) traffic has increased tenfold, and more and more African telecommunications companies are seeking direct access to the US and South American markets.

According to Angola Optical Cable, when 6,156 kilometers of intercontinental submarine optical cables were put into use in September 2018, the delay between Africa and the Americas was almost halved, enabling fast digital connections and accelerating digital and economic growth on both sides of the Atlantic.

Through the direct connection between Angola Luanda and Fortaleza, Brazil, you can access Latin America faster, and connect the United States and Europe through the Monet fiber optic cable connection.

Angola Cables CEO Angelo Gama said that not only has private line connections with the United States and Latin America increased significantly, but the low latency between the Americas and Africa enables African operators to optimize their global network solutions through submarine fiber optic cable systems. From the Americas to Africa, we can see the strong demand of ultra-large-scale enterprises and content providers. They hope to use SACS’ low-latency routing to transmit and cache data closer to the edge or base of their trans-Atlantic customers.

Liquid Intelligent Technologies recently opened an access point (PoP) in Miami, using SACS low-latency connection. POP is connected to a 100,000-kilometer fiber optic network spanning 11 countries across the African continent and 14 other countries through the operator alliance program and liquid satellite services.

Liquid Sea CEO David Eurin stated that the Miami POP enables US-based companies to access 40 data centers in Africa, including nine data centers operated by African data centers and six data centers operated by Teraco.

Eurin said:“Through SACS, we can guarantee safe and high-speed interconnection to all our partners and customers in the United States, and enable our customers in Africa to directly access the Internet and data center resources in the United States.”

Vodacom also upgraded their connection on the SACS fiber optic cable to extend customer services and solutions to Brazil and Chile.