What is set to become the world's largest submarine cable system, 2Africa, has made another African landing, this time in Mahajanga in Madagascar, as it works its way up Africa's East Coast. Madagascan operator Telma and global operator Vodafone joined forces to connect Madagascar to 2Africa this. Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) is responsible for deploying this 45 000-kilometre cable system, designed with a capacity of 180 Tbits per second, it will interconnect 33 countries in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Delivering more than the total combined capacity of all subsea cables serving. The launch of 2Africa enables us to offer our customers seamless connection between Africa and Europe, together with our SEA-ME-WE 5 and AAE-1 subsea cable resources to further extend to Asia, which is an important milestone of our global development strategy,” said Jessica Gu, Director & Chief. Title of Project MADAGASCAR UNDERSEA FIBER OPTIC CABLE PROJECT Location MADAGASCAR(MG)-SOUTH AFRICA(RSA) Title of Project TELECOMMUNICATIONS Public or Private Sector Project (or PPP) (indicate public and private sector roles) INITIATED BY PUBLIC SECTOR WILL BE OWNED AND OPERATED BY PRIVATE SECTOR. The Melting Pot Indianoceanic Submarine System (METISS) is a fibre optic cable system connecting Mauritius to South Africa, consists of 3,200 km trunk from Mauritius to South Africa and branching units to Reunion Island and Madagascar, with design capacity of 24Tbps. The METISS consortium comprises. The East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) project consists of the construction of approximately 10,000 km of fiber optic submarine cable along the East African coast, linking Sudan to South Africa, with additional landing points in Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar and.