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Angola Cables announced this October the start of the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) operation, the first submarine cable in the Southern Hemisphere to connect Africa to South America. It is extended between Fortaleza (Brazil) and Luanda (Angola) and has a transmission capacity of 40 Tb/s, offering lower latency between the two continents. According to Angola Cables, the cable, which cost approximately 130 million dollars, aims to reduce traffic costs for the African continent and attract regional internet providers, large operators, multinational companies and research networks.

(Source: Angola Cables, with information from RNP and RedCLARA) With four optical fiber pairs and a service life of at least 25 years, SACS will also be used by RedCLARA in cooperation with the AARCLight project, which plans to offer high performance international connections between the United States and the West Coast of Africa, for data traffic between the academic networks of these regions. The AARCLight project is an initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Florida International University (FIU).

In addition to SACS, another Angola Cables enterprise in Brazil is its datacenter, which is being built in Fortaleza. Planned to be inaugurated by the end of the year, the facilities will serve to build a Global Traffic Exchange Point in Latin America for the exclusive use of the teaching and research community. SACS operates in an integrated way with other submarine cables, such as the Monet, which connects Boca Ratón, Florida (USA), Fortaleza and Santos (SP); and the WACS, which connects Africa Coast to Europe.