New cable promises bandwidth bonanza

Imagine downloading 5,000 movies a second over your internet connection. Those are the ultimate speeds being promised by a multibillion-rand submarine cable system that is to be built to connect South Africa and East Africa to Asia and the Middle East and on to Europe.The Africa-1 system, which will have a design capacity of 40 terabits per second (that's more than five million megabits a second), is still in planning - with its exact route still to be determined - but its backers hope to have s...