Orange hooks up Chinese subsea cable in Marseille

The latest subsea cable designed to ease capacity constraints in East Africa has landed in Marseille, according to Orange, which will operate the landing station in the French city.
The China-backed PEACE (or Pakistan and East Africa Connecting Europe) cable – nice work on the acronym – has come ashore in France and will be commissioned for use next year. Landing party Orange will now extend the system to a major data centre in Marseille where the submarine line terminal equipment is