NEC announced the construction of a submarine cable system for Angola Cables across the South Atlantic, enabling large capacity international data transmissions.

The South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) will connect Angola and Brazil, directly linking the African continent to Latin America across the South Atlantic for the first time.

SACS will feature the latest 4-fiber-pair cable and optical transmission technologies with an initial design capacity of 40Tb/s, said Toru Kawauchi, general manager at NEC’s Submarine Network Division.

The SACS cable system will land at Sangano cable landing station in Angola, near the capital city of Luanda, and will provide onward connectivity to the Angonap data center. In Brazil, SACS will land directly in a newly constructed data center, which was built together with SACS and for another cable system connecting Brazil to the US.

Angola Cables owns the data center in Fortaleza, along with local investors. Angola Cables operates SACS and both the Fortaleza data center and Angonap. Angola Cables will connect Angola and Africa directly to Brazil and the US through SACS and the other cable, adding to existing connectivity from Africa to the US through Europe.

“OSI has helped transform the initial confirmation of commercial viability to drive the day-to-day project management, network planning and implementation of this direct connection between Africa and the Americas,” said Antonio Nunes, chief executive officer of Angola Cables.

NEC, which has more than 40 years of experience in the submarine cable business, has laid a total of more than 250,000 kilometers of submarine cable, the equivalent of six trips around the earth.