Huawei Marine Networks is looking to construct a Cameroon-Brazil Cable System (CBCS), connecting Africa to Latin America.
The project is invested by CamTel, China Unicom and Telefónica, who will support the initiative by providing their international facilities and experience.
The four parties involved sealed the agreement in October this year.
Sales director for Huawei Marine's business in Middle East and Africa, Lan Tu, says the project will meet the increasing demand for Internet access in the two regions, which are strategically emerging market for Chinese telecom operators.
CBCS, which is approximately 6,000 km long, will cross the south Atlantic sea connecting Kribi, Cameroon to Fortaleza, Brazil. Utilising Huawei Marine's leading 100G technology, it will have an initial system capacity of 32 Tbps with 4 fiber pairs. The system will come into service at the end of 2017.
Huawei Marine will deploy its 6fp submarine Repeater 1660, the industry's first innovative titanium repeater, which boasts a slim-line profile to allow direct lay and plough burial for the installation. This simultaneous operation significantly reduces system installation costs by eliminating the need for an expensive secondary, post-lay burial operation.
