Les Cottrell (SLAC) and Umar Kalim (SLAC and NIIT)
In March 2008 France Telecom & Orange announced a plan to install a submarine fibre optic cable providing Madagascar with broadband internet. Known as Lion, the 1,800 km cable will connect Madagascar with the region's existing Sat3-Wasc-Safe cable via Reunion and Mauritiu.
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Office National pour l'Environment | Iniversite Universite de Maharanja Mahajanga | University of Antananaviro Antananarivo |
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The derived TCP throughputs (derived from throughput = 1460*8 /(RTT 8 sqrt(loss)) kbits/s where RTT is in msec) are shown below for the last 2 years. 
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The traceroutes show that from SLAC:
The Office National pour l'Environment goes through France from where there is a satellite link to Madascar.
The Universite de Mahajanga goes to New York, then there is no further information.
The University of Antananaviro goes vis Swededn of Antananarivo goes via Sweden from where there is a satellite hop to Madagascar.
Mauritius goes to Canada, then France and finally Mauritius.
The topologies obtained from the traceroutes results are shown in the annexure.
Annexure
USA (SLAC) to Madagascar | USA (SLAC) to Madagascar | USA (SLAC) to Mauritius | USA (SLAC) to Mauritius |
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A copy of the results (for Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles) are put together in a graphical format as follows:
USA (SLAC) to Madagascar, |
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