SAT-3/WASC

South Atlantic 3/West Africa Submarine Cable (SAT-3/WASC)
Owners: Telkom Group (13%), France Telecom (12.08%), Nitel (8.39%), AT&T (12.42%), and VSNL (8.93%).
Landing points Chipiona, Spain Altavista, Gran Canaria, Spain Sesimbra, Portugal Dakar, Senegal Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire Accra, Ghana Cotonou, Benin Lagos, Nigeria Douala, Cameroon Libreville, Gabon Cacuaco, Angola Melkbosstrand, South Africa
Total length	13000 km
Topology	trunk and branch
Design capacity	340 Gbit /s
Technology	Fibre-optic
Date of first use	2001

SAT-3/WASC or South Atlantic 3/West Africa Submarine Cable is a submarine communications cable linking Portugal and Spain to South Africa, with connections to several West African countries along the route.

It forms part of the SAT-3/WASC/SAFE cable system, where the SAFE cable links South Africa to Asia. The SAT-3/WASC/SAFE system provides a path between Asia and Europe for telecommunications traffic that is an alternative to the cable routes that pass through the Middle East, such as SEA-ME-WE 3 and FLAG. SAT-3 has a capacity of 340 Gbit/s while SAFE has a capacity of 440 Gbit/s. The SAT-3 system together with SAFE was built by a consortium of operators .^[1]