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Subsea
Subsea cables play a critical part in today’s communication infrastructure, helping to make calls, send emails, and stream content online.
Subsea cables date back to the 1900s when Victorians used them to send telegrams.
Today, 95% of the world's international data traffic is transferred through thousands of miles of subsea cables that stretch across oceans located thousands of meters below the sea surface.
Today we have capacity on over 70 subsea cable systems, reaching 100 countries and are continuing to expand.
As more people and devices become connected in the future, subsea cables will be more important than ever in ensuring widespread connectivity and access to the Internet.
Advantages of our submarine and terrestrial cable systems
Fast and resilient
Advanced technology with new routing for enhanced resilience
Leadership and quality of service
Our high-speed networks give your customers the bandwidth capacity they need now and for the future
Flexibility and cost-effectiveness
A wide and comprehensive choice of bundled services
Global reach and scale
Over one million kilometres of network connected to every worldwide destination
The 2Africa cable
Vodafone is a member of the 2Africa Consortium, a group of international partners developing the world’s largest subsea cable system.
With a capacity of up to 180 terabits (Tbps) per second, 2Africa will be the first system to provide continuous capacity around the African continent and will connect 33 countries on three continents (Europe, Africa and Asia). Launched in May 2020, when it’s completed, it will be over 45,000 kilometres in length – long enough to stretch around the circumference of the earth.
Meet Rick Perry, Head of Subsea Partnerships
Starting his career in 1974, Rick Perry has had a long and successful career in international communications. From his current roles of Director of Vodafone Enterprise Ukraine, Director of Apollo Submarine Cable Systems Limited, Head of Vodafone’s Subsea Partnerships and Trustee of PK Porthcurno Museum to, perhaps most notably, his OBE awarded in 1999 and CBE 10 years later, both for ‘Services to the Telecommunications Industry’.
“The submarine cable world is about as far away from a mobile phone as you can get. Yet they're still very much orientated in the same communications world,”
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