Today, we announce the completion of the core 2Africa subsea cable system — the longest open-access subsea cable in the world at 45,000 km. Connecting over 3 billion people across 33 countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe, 2Africa represents a leap forward in global connectivity. 🌍 Key highlights include: 🔹 180 Tbps trunk capacity for high-bandwidth, low-latency digital services 🔹 Designed to boost Africa’s GDP by up to $36.9 billion within the first two to three years of operation 🔹 Engineered resiliency featuring 50% deeper burial, optimized routing, and dual trunk powering 🔹 Advanced spatial division multiplexing (SDM) technology with up to 16 fiber pairs per cable, doubling capacity By delivering robust connectivity, 2Africa is designed to pave the way for next-gen applications such as AI, cloud, and 5G with future-proof scalability. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gY68ERxR #Infrastructure #AI
Massive milestone. What stands out here is how physical infrastructure quietly reshapes what’s possible in AI. Without low-latency, high-resilience links like 2Africa, real-time systems can’t exist, from finance to safety to live verification. The world notices the apps, but progress always starts with cables like this.
🌍 This is a massive milestone for Meta — not just for connectivity, but for the entire technological landscape of the next decade. Global-scale infrastructure like 2Africa is what unlocks everything that comes after: faster AI systems, real-time immersive experiences, advanced VR/AR, and innovations that simply weren’t possible without this kind of bandwidth and latency. This is the foundation on which the next generation of technologies will be built. #AI #meta #Infrastructure #Connectivity #FutureTech #GlobalInnovation
And yet you still can't hire competent AI engineers to fix the Instagram and Facebook account ban that are happening at random. And your customer service employees are absolutely horrible!
How is it possible to be such a large company without any ability for human customer service interaction? This company will deactivate accounts without warning and any evidence to formalize an appeal. You can always ascertain a company’s intentions when they don’t put any human decision making in their customer support functions.
This is a monumental achievement for global connectivity! The 2Africa subsea cable is setting a new standard, connecting over 3 billion people across three continents. With its massive capacity and cutting-edge technology, it will drive economic growth and enable next-gen applications like AI, cloud, and 5G.
This is truly transformative. The effort to connect the unconnected through new submarine cables represents far more than a technical enhancement — it marks a historic shift in Africa’s digital trajectory, driving development and enabling real economic transformation.
Despite being built to connect people and continents, 2Africa is ultimately a powerful enabler for businesses looking to innovate far beyond connectivity alone. It provides the foundational digital infrastructure that unlocks new value in cloud, AI, and data-driven services. By extending far past simple bandwidth, 2Africa positions entire regions to accelerate their digital economies and build the next generation of transformative solutions. Feeling privileged to live this era !!!
Congratulations to all the team.
As a member of a team that finalised the first sub marine cable contract to East Africa from Fujairah to Mombasa, I am extremely happy to hear that one of the longest cable system is touching 33 countries in Africa. Congratulations!!!
👏 Congratulations, to the Meta Engineering team! Advanced SDM tech with 16 pairs per cable is cutting-edge. This massive boost in capacity across Africa, Asia, and Europe is truly game-changing. A true leap forward for global connectivity! 🌍