Seaborn Networks, the folks that linked Brazil and the USA together using the Seabras-1 cable are quietly busy. In one of the most low-key launches of a new route, you can’t find much more than a twitter post.
Seaborn announces new route SABR https://t.co/knvcuxfBjJ Cape Town/São Paulo/ NYC faster, more reliable, next-gen subsea data connectivity https://t.co/lzeQk3Fgt4
— Seaborn Networks (@Seabornnetworks) October 23, 2017
Appropriately enough this is an announcement tied to the Africacom event, held over the 7-9 November 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa. But using Google can help. Somewhere on the internet, there is a page looks like the next version of Seaborn’s website. Here there is more information about the SABR cable system. According to this page, the SABR cable will connect to the Seabras-1 cable and land in Cape Town. By using the branching unit in the Seabras-1 cable, it will be possible to have circuits that terminate both in South Africa and Brazil, in South Africa and the USA, as well as the existing Brazil-USA, terminations supported by Seabras-1.
Using the same 100Gb/s technology as the Seabras-1 cable, the SABR cable will provide a key route to improve latency between Africa and the USA, as well as improving bandwidth in the South Atlantic, alongside the SAIL cable.
