Angola Cables is a wholesale carrier, built in 2009 by the five major Angolan telecom operators. This company is driven by its shareholders vision and government strategy to transform Angola into one of the main African HUBs

Mission

● Support the development of the telecom sector in Angola and Africa;

● Deliver high feasibility and capacity international connections to Angolan operators;

● Supply interconnection between telecom operators within the region to the rest of the world;

www.angolacables.co.ao

THE COMPANY

INSIDE ANGOLA

Today's 3G and 4G networks are a reality in Angola. The fiber optic backbones were installed throughout the country. The main towns are interconnected with fiber optic

Estimated Population in 2012

Angola has a population of approximately 19 millions inhabitants and over 50% live in urban centers. (60% are under 30 years)

Estimates point to reach 22.4 millions inhabitants in 2016 44.6 millions in 2050

Mobile phone users in 2013 13.2 millions - a penetration rate of 68.95% (90% prepaid)

Internet users in 2013 2.2 millions - a penetration rate of 12%

● AngoNap is the host of all the operators in Angola and provide them with international and local connectivity;

● Is the Angolan Internet Access Point (IXP)

● Is a Datacenter hosting facility for Wholesale, Operators and Enterprises

● Hosting of the main Angolan domain .AO

● Co-location for Telcos and Non-Telcos

● Virtual POP services

● National Connectivity

● Regional Connectivity

● Global Connectivity

● IP Transit

● Remote hands services

● Cross Connect Services

ANGONAP AngoNap Services:

THE CONNECTIVITY THROUGH ANGOLA

The vision for AngoNap is to be a neutral service provider that can provide industry standard services in the Southern region

Why a data center in Luanda (AngoNap):

● Luanda is one of the fastest growing cities, but also a stable growing economic city in Africa

● All Angolan Operators are based in the Angolan Capital – Luanda

● It has a growing metropolitan fiber network with local operators investing a lot in connectivity

● It has access to WACS, Sat-3 and SACS CLS

● Luanda is connected via fiber to the major cities in Angola

WACS – WEST AFRICA CABLE SYSTEM

http://wacscable.com/index.jsp

WACS

● WACS has 15 terminal stations along the Western Coast of Africa

● Thus consisting of 11 African countries and 3 Europeans

● The total cost for the cable system was $650 million

● The design capacity of WACS is at least 5,12 Tbps, which can be upgraded to 30 Tbps.

● Angola Cables manages the WACS operations in Angola, this includes the Cable Landing Station and the AngoNap (Angola Cables’ Nap)

Is the Cable System connecting South Africa with the United Kingdom along the west coast of Africa, which was constructed by Alcatel-Lucent

Cape Verde

Portugal

Canary Islands

• Ivory Coast • Ghana • Togo • Nigeria • Cameroon • Congo • DRC • Angola • Namibia • South Africa

• United Kingdom

• London

SACS & CABLE OF THE AMERICAS

South Atlantic Cable System is the new cable system, to be launched by Angola Cables, linking Angola and Brazil. This cable will support the development of telecommunications in Africa, which currently has the highest rate of Internet traffic growth in the world

SACS is the first transatlantic cable system crossing the South Hemisphere, connecting Africa and the Americas. This will build an alternative route to the North Atlantic cables and it will also allow alternative connections from Asia and Africa to the rest of the world

Cable of the Americas is a cable system that will link Miami to Santos via Fortaleza (Brazil). This system will build a direct link from Angola to North America, using the SACS in Fortaleza

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SACS_(cable_system)

Capacity 4 fiber pairs, each designed for 100 X 100 Gbps wavelengths

• Total Design Capacity 40 Tbps

Size 6,165 route-km

SACS Cable’s Connectivity in Angola

● It will connect directly to WACS at the cable landing station in Sangano, Angola;

● It will have a direct link to the POP in Luanda, Angola (AngoNAP);

● It will have interconnection with SAT-3 through terrestrial path in Luanda and also through sea cable at CLS in Cacuaco, Angola;

● It will have access and interconnection with other cables landing in Fortaleza, Brazil

Schedule for the kickoff of the sea work

• Marine Route Survey scheduled for early 2014

• Cable installation scheduled for later 2014 / early 2015

Schedule for RFS RFS estimated by mid-2015

SACS CONFIGURATION

Fortaleza

Miami

Sangano

CABLE OF THE AMERICAS’ CONFIGURATION

Capacity 2 fiber pairs, each designed for 100 X 100 Gbps wavelengths

• Total Design Capacity 20 Tbps

Two (2) segments, each segment has 20 Tbps of Design Capacity

• Florida (USA)-Fortaleza, Brazil

• Fortaleza, Brazil-Santos (Sao Paulo) Brazil

Length

• Florida-Fortaleza: approximately 6,720 route-km

• Fortaleza-Santos: approximately 4,180 route-km

Schedule for the kickoff of the sea work

• Cable installation scheduled for later 2014 / early 2015

• RFS estimated by mid-2015

Relevant information

• US PoP in NAP of the Americas, Miami, Florida (USA)

• Fortaleza access and interconnection with other cables landing in Fortaleza

• PoP access in Sao Paulo

Santos

It will benefit all operators as:

● Guarantee the exchange of IP traffic amount operators

● Improve the client access to content

● Reduce the internet costs in the country and in the region

● Create a neutral access point between the operators of the region

INTERNET EXCHANGE POINT

The Angolan IXP - will be the Internet Exchange for the national operators and available for the regional ones

Angola

● Angola is geographically placed in a fortunate location

● Terrestrially it is able to reach land locked countries such as Zambia, East part of Congo DRC, Congo Brazzaville, as well as Namibia

● Through the existing Cable systems, Angola is connected to the entire West and the southern East coast of Africa. Allowing Angola to be the ideal link between North Africa, Southern Africa, East and West Africa. Angola enjoys peaceful relations with all of its neighboring countries

● This makes Angola the ideal link between Africa and the world

www.angola.org http://angola.opendataforafrica.org/

THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS HUB ANGOLA

THANK YOU!

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