Data Gateway between Europe and Africa - MEDUSA AFRICA

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The overall objective of the MEDUSA AFRICA project is to connect, in the future, the Southern European Data Gateway with the Atlantic Africa via a new generation submarine cable. This project prepares the basis to build a subsystem dedicated to the connectivity to Africa within the overall Medusa Submarine Cable System, which includes building a Branching Unit (BU78) in the Atlantic facing Africa, and the marine survey from that Branching Unit to Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in order to deploy, in the future, a 20 fiber pair submarine cable. This project also includes the Marine surveys of a branch of the following countries Cape Verde, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroun, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tomé and Principe, Republic of Congo, Angola and DRC. The marine survey is encompassed in the third phase of the master plan of AFR-IX Telecom to position the Southern European Data Gateway as the main Data Gateway for the African Continent including the most important landing points in Europe (Lisbon, Barcelona and Marseille). Hence, the marine survey studies and the works in the BU78 will allow to reinforce the creation of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Data Gateway and will help place Europe as a central actor in the global telecommunications framework.