Announced back in September 2019, the new PEACE (Pakistan and East Africa Connecting Europe) submarine cable has now landed on the shores of Marseille. It will connect Europe to Asia via East Africa and will be commissioned in 2020.
Orange – the leading telecommunications operator in France – acting as the landing party for the PEACE cable in France has successfully completed the landing of the PEACE system in Marseille, and will supply and operate the cable landing station.
Orange, the sole French operator in the industry with existing infrastructure and the technical expertise will be in charge of extending the PEACE System to one of Marseille’s major data centers where the submarine line terminal equipment is located.
PEACE will provide the most direct and high-capacity route from Asia and East Africa to Europe. These features, combined with exceptionally low latency, are vitally important for a wide array of commercial and consumer applications. Moreover, PEACE deploys a state-of-the-art “system within a system” configuration that gives each party the required flexibility to design its own subsystem with reconfigurable bandwidth for different points over the lifetime of the cable.
Through its partnership with PCCW Global and PEACE Cable International Network, Orange will benefit from enhanced capacity from the cable between Marseille and Kenya in order to support the growth of traffic in East Africa, especially through La Réunion and Mayotte. The objective also includes finding alternative routes, and to reduce dependency on the existing systems on the eastern coast of Africa.
