Name of the Project
Monet submarine cable network project.

Location
The project will connect Santos and Fortaleza, in Brazil, with Miami, in the US.

Client
The project is being built by a consortium comprising Algar Telecom (Brazil), Angola Cables (Angola), Antel (Uruguay), Etix Everywhere (Germany) and Google.

Project Description
The Monet project, also known as the Cable of the Americas, or COTA, is a 10 500-km-long subsea fibre-optic cable, which will feature the latest high-quality six-fibre-pair cable and optical transmission technologies, with an initial design capacity of about 60 Tb/s (100 Gb/s × 100 wavelengths × six fibre-pairs). The cable will link Boca Raton, in Florida, in the US, to the Brazilian cities of Praia Grande, in São Paulo state, and Fortaleza, capital of the north-eastern state of Ceará.

Google has landing party responsibilities at both ends – it is the US landing party and will provide landing facilities in Praia Grande, Brazil. Angola Cables will be responsible for the landing facilities in Fortaleza.

Monet will be supplemented with another submarine system currently under construction – the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS), which will indirectly provide Angola and West Africa with a high-speed link to North America.

Jobs to be Created
Not stated.

Value
Not stated.

Duration
The Monet cable system is expected to be completed by mid-2017.

Latest Developments
Luxembourg-headquartered data centre and cable landing specialist Etix Every-where has partnered with Angola Cables to build infrastructure to reduce the latency between the US and Africa, thereby eliminating the data route through Europe.

Key Contracts and Suppliers
None stated.

On Budget and on Time?
Not stated.

Contact Details for Project Information
Angola Cables, tel +244 227 360 006 or email geral@angolacables.co.ao.