The BRICS Cable was a plannedoptical fibresubmarine communications cable system that would have carried telecommunications between theBRICS countries, specificallyBrazil,Russia,India,China andSouth Africa.[1] The cable was announced in 2012[1][2] but the project was abandoned around 2015.[3][4] The project aimed to provide bandwidth around theSouthern Hemisphere of the globe and to "ensure thatdeveloping nations’ communications are not all in the hands of the nations of the North".[5]
The cable was planned to be approximately 34,000 kilometres (21,000 mi) long, and to contain a 2-fibre pair with a 12.8 Tbit/s capacity.[1][6] It would have interconnected with theWACS cable on the West coast of Africa, and theEASSy andSEACOM cables on the East coast of the continent.[6]
The BRICS cable was intended "to circumvent the U.S. andNSA spying through ports in Russia, China, Singapore, India, Mauritius, South Africa, and Brazil".[7]
The possiblelanding points were to be:Fortaleza (Brazil),Cape Town (South Africa),Mauritius,Chennai (India),Singapore,Shantou (China), andVladivostok (Russia).
For map and logo see:[1].
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