What is "cbcs"

CBCS may refer to:

• CBCS (cable system) or Cameroon-Brazil Cable System, a planned transatlantic submarine communications cable.
• Comic Book Certification Service, a comic book grading service based in St. Petersburg, Florida.
• Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society, a network of Moro civil society organizations in Mindanao.
• CBCS-FM, a radio station (99.9 FM) licensed to Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
• CBCS-TV-1, a television station (channel 8) licensed to Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada, rebroadcasting CKSA-TV Lloydminster
• Chevaliers Beneficient De La Cité-Sainté, one of the three schools of Martinism
• Chinese Bible Church of Springfield, a non-denominational Christian church
• Opus-CBCS, a Fidonet Bulletin Board system

The Cameroon-Brazil Cable System or CBCS, is a planned submarine communications cable in the South Atlantic Ocean linking Kribi, Cameroon with Fortaleza, Brazil. It is designed to provide low latency routing between Africa and Asia in the east and the Americas in the west. At present international traffic from Africa to America is routed via Western Europe first before going to America. CBCS will provide a direct route from Africa to America, providing Cameroon, Brazil and their neighboring countries with improved performance.

The cable will measure approximately 6,000 km in length and will contain four fibre pairs, each capable of transmitting 100 wavelengths with a bandwidth of 100Gbit/s. Construction costs are expected to amount to $130 million (80 billion CFA), $81 million (50 billion CFA) of which are to be funded by Exim Bank of China with the remainder being contributed by Camtel. Camtel on its part has received funding worth $17 million (20 billion CFA) from Unicom.

On October 22nd, 2015 Huawei Marine announced that it has been awarded with the contract to construct the SACS cable starting in early 2016.

CBCS will be the fourth submarine cable to land in Cameroon after WACS, ACE and SAT-3/WASC which will provide diversified onwards connectivity to countries along the West Coast of Africa and to Europe.