Orange, PCCW Global and PEACE recently signed an agreement to deploy the new submarine cable - PEACE Med. This agreement marks the arrival of the first Chinese private submarine cable in France.
PEACE refers to Pakistan and East Africa Connecting Europe, is an open and neutral submarine cable system invested by HENGTONG Optic-electric (HKT), the global information and energy network service provider. Measuring 12,000 kilometres in length, PEACE will link France to Pakistan through a single landing point in the city of Marseille by 2021 using the Europe-Asia route, and the city of Mombasa in Kenya, via a short route towards the Indian Ocean that will ensure optimum latency, and extend to South Africa in the future, reaching 15,000 kilometres totally.
Through this agreement, Orange will supply and operate the cable landing station in Marseille to link it to one of the city’s major data centres, and to make it a gateway to the European network; and even to the Americas thanks to access to the transatlantic network accessible from France.
Jerome Barre, CEO, Orange Wholesale and International Networks
For Orange, PEACE is a major investment as it will provide greater route diversity, improved connection security and guaranteed support for increased capacity across all regions in the Indian Ocean zone, particularly Réunion and Mayotte.
Marc Halbfinger, CEO, PCCW Global
Our collaboration with Orange is a critically important step towards bringing PEACE online and we trust the capabilities and vast experience of their teams in France to provide a successful and timely delivery of the European leg of the project.
