The point where Somalia’s capacity comes ashore
We operate our own cable landing station in Mogadishu. Four submarine systems are reachable from it — two held directly, two through our shareholding in WIOCC. We say which is which, because a diversity design built on an assumption nobody told you about is not a diversity design.
Four routes off the continent, on two different bases
Two of these are ours outright. Two are reached through WIOCC, in which Dalkom is a shareholder. Both are real capacity — but they are not the same commercial instrument, and you should know which one is carrying your traffic.
EASSy
The East African Submarine System, running down the eastern seaboard and connecting the region to Europe and Asia through onward systems.
- Basis
- Direct capacity
- Direction
- East coast, north & south
2Africa
One of the largest subsea systems built around the continent, giving a physically separate route to Europe from the one EASSy takes.
- Basis
- Direct capacity
- Direction
- Around Africa, to Europe
WACS
The West Africa Cable System, reached through our shareholding in WIOCC — a westward route that shares almost no physical path with the eastern systems.
- Basis
- Via WIOCC holding
- Direction
- West coast, to Europe
EIG
Europe India Gateway, reached on the same basis — a northern route through the Red Sea corridor towards Europe and onward to South Asia.
- Basis
- Via WIOCC holding
- Direction
- Red Sea, to Europe & Asia
Owning the landing point changes what can go wrong
Capacity looks identical on a quotation whoever sells it to you. The difference shows up on the day a cable is cut.
Your outage is a conversation you are not in
- The party you pay does not control the equipment your traffic lands on
- Restoration priority is set by somebody else’s contract, not yours
- “Diverse” routes can quietly share the same landing point or backhaul
- Each hand-off adds a margin, a delay, and a version of events
The decision to restore is ours to make
- The station, the meet-me room and the backhaul are all under one operator
- You can be shown the physical path your service takes, and its alternates
- Diversity is verifiable against four systems on separate routes
- One engineering team, in Mogadishu, answers for the whole path
What sits behind the beach manhole
A landing station is not just where a cable stops. It is where it becomes usable capacity — and where somebody has to be on shift when it is not.
Tell us the failure you cannot accept
Bring us the outage you are designing against and we will show you which of the four systems your service would use, what the alternate path is, and what actually happens when the first one goes.