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FEAST Project 25 th February 2010 Brussels, Belgium

FEAST Project 25 th February 2010 Brussels, Belgium. Hillary Tarus, Technical Manager. The EASSy Fact file…. E A SSy is a 10,800km submarine fibre optic cable system. 2 Fibre pairs of 1.4Tbps capacity Initially 8 L anding Stations:. South Africa Madagascar Mozambique Comoros

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FEAST Project 25 th February 2010 Brussels, Belgium

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  1. FEAST Project 25th February 2010 Brussels, Belgium Hillary Tarus, Technical Manager

  2. The EASSy Fact file… EASSy is a 10,800km submarine fibre optic cable system • 2 Fibre pairs of 1.4Tbps capacity • Initially 8 Landing Stations: • South Africa • Madagascar • Mozambique • Comoros • Tanzania • Kenya • Djibouti • Sudan • Construction cost $265 million • Operational mid – 2010 • WIOCC owns 30% of EASSy

  3. ... and Berbera

  4. EASSy cable is in the water ! • Two pronged approach to cable lay to shorten lay period. • The Southern Cable Ship ILE DE SEIN is past Djibouti Landing Station and is laying towards Mombasa . Expected arrival - first week of April. • The Northern Cable Ship ILE DE BATZ began laying from Mtunzini in South Africa on 12th Feb. • The two ends are expected to join by the 3rd week of April. Cable Laying will be complete soon

  5. Cable Lay progress… … as of 22nd Feb 2010

  6. Landing Time Table

  7. Fibre will become the primary connectivity medium for Internet & International connectivity for the East Coast of Africa. International Bandwidth Prices are set to fall as WIOCC capacity becomes available when EASSy lands on the East Coast Multiple systems will bring much needed network diversity and resilience and greater competition Bandwidth buyers are adopting a “wait and see approach” or are pre-buying WIOCC capacity for Q3 2010 delivery at significantly reduced prices Market Realities WIOCC is offering 2010 price reductions now

  8. EASSyShareholding

  9. AFRICA Botswana EASSy Burundi THE WORLD Comoros Djibouti Ethiopia Kenya Lesotho Port Sudan / Djibouti / Mtunzini Madagascar Mumbai Malawi Mayotte Mozambique Rwanda Somalia London South Africa Sudan Network- Network Interface (NNI) Network- Network Interface (NNI) Swaziland Tanzania Uganda Zambia Miami WIOCC EASSy Global carrier Global carrier Global carrier Zimbabwe WIOCC unique value proposition WWW

  10. WIOCC Key differentiators • Extensive shareholder backhaul network

  11. WIOCC Key differentiators • Landlocked Countries Connectivity- interconnects 9 landlocked countries

  12. Mombasa (Kenya) Moroni (Grand Comore) Mogadishu (Somalia) Maputo (Mozambique) Port Sudan (Sudan) Mtunzini (S. Africa) Djibouti Toliary (Madagascar) Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) A High Availability Submarine Cable WIOCC Key differentiators • SDH “collapsed ring” configuration provides protection against equipment & branch failure

  13. WIOCC Key differentiators Onward Connectivity Diverse onward connectivity to Europe, Asia and North America via EIG, SAS, Reliance-FLAG, IMeWe, MENA, TEAMS, WACS etc

  14. Thank You

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