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BY MOHAMED AHMED
DARE1 SUBSEA CABLE:
Project Enters into Cable and Material Manufacturing Stage
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arine survey for the Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE1) submarine cable system has been completed and the cable route finalized. The project is progressing on schedule with the marine survey completed on January 21, 2019. Manufacturing of the undersea cables and repeaters will begin in April 2019 and the system will be ready for commercial traffic in June 2020. The DARE1 cable system is the first step in a planned expansion into eastern Africa, which will connect Djibouti (Djibouti), Bosaso (Somalia), Mogadishu (Somalia) and Mombasa (Kenya). With a finalized route length of 4,747km, DARE1 will deliver up to 36 Tbps of capacity to East Africa. The cable will facilitate connectivity from Mombasa to Djibouti. it’s claimed that it will create the shortest route from east Africa to Europe via Djibouti. According to Djibouti telecom, this network topology “substantially improve
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the Network Latency and will provide a “cost-effective”, diverse route between Kenya and Europe. Djibouti Telecom believe in DARE1’s open access and carrier neutral data centers will have a “big impact” in the countries connected to the cable system. DARE1 is a consortium comprised of Djibouti Telecom, Somtel group and Telkom Kenya, as a Landing Party in Kenya and a strategic Partner for Connectivity within eastern African landlocked countries. Djibouti Africa Regional Express (DARE1) is a repeatered submarine cable system providing connectivity between Djibouti (Djibouti) and Mombasa (Kenya), with stubbed branches to Bosaso (Somalia), and Mogadishu (Somalia). The solution presented and designed by TE SubCom includes a combination of equipment and technologies to meet the overall objectives for DARE1. This new cable will also allow Djibouti telecom to be