En funcionamiento desde marzo de 2017, Ceiba-2 conecta las ciudades de Malabo y Bata en Guinea Ecuatorial con la ciudad de Kribi en Camerún. El cable submarino Ceiba-2 es un cable de última generación que cumple dos objetivos: por un lado, protege el enlace entre Bata y Malabo, que is currently operated through the Ceiba-1 submarine cable, and on the other hand, acts as a second international connection point for Equatorial Guinea. Ceiba-2 also allows for the interconnection of the ACE submarine cable with Cameroon, since the underwater stations of Ceiba-2 and ACE in Bata are located next to each other and are directly interconnected by fiber optics. Ceiba-2 is equipped with an initial system of 40 Gbps lambdas and is scalable to a 100 Gbps lambdas system to satisfy future demand.
The ACE (África Coast To Europe) system, belonging to an international consortium with the same name, is a submarine fiber optic cable system that begins in France and reaches various countries on the coast of the African continent. Bata is the arrival point in Equatorial Guinea. Each of the countries participating in the ACE Consortium has an assigned bandwidth within the cable. The ACE cable, which has been in operation since 2012, provided Equatorial Guinea with a very important qualitative leap in terms of communications with the rest of the world. This allowed for a high-performance connection with the main International Carriers, thus reducing the digital divide and improving the country’s economic and social development.
