SAT-2 was a submarine communications cable linking Melkbosstrand, South Africa, to El Medano, Tenerife Island, Spain and Funchal, Madeira islands, Portugal.
It was long, contained 82 repeaters, operated at 560 Mbit/s and was in service from 1993 to January, 2013.
It was the first sub-Saharan cable, but it bypassed the African west coast.
It is the property of a consortium of fifteen operators including: Telkom SA Ltd, Telefónica, Marconi, British Telecom, France Cables et Radio, and Deutsche Telekom.
See also
- List of international submarine communications cables
Individual cable systems off the west coast of Africa include:
- ACE
- ATLANTIS-2
- GLO-1
- Main One
- SAT-3/WASC
- WACS
- SACS
- Equiano