TEAMS (The East African Marine System) is an initiative spearheaded by the government of Kenya to link the country to the rest of the world through a submarine fibre optic cable. It was first proposed as an alternative to EASSy, the East African Submarine Cable System. The Kenyan government had grown frustrated with the ownership model favoured by South Africa, the time it was taking and what it perceived as an attempt by South Africa to control the cable. As a result, in November 2006, the Kenyan government decided to partner with the Emirates Telecommunication Establishment (Etisalat) to build its own fibre optic cable.

The 4500km fibre optic cable is to link the city of Mombasa on the coast of Kenya to Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates.

The TEAMS cable was originally designed to have an initial capacity of 40 Gb/s upgradeable to 640 Gb/s should the initial capacity be insufficient. The project has since exercised an option in the Construction & Maintenance Agreement (CMA) to increase the capacity to 1.2 Tb/s of which 120 GB will be initial capacity at project start. Excess bandwidth will be absorbed for use by the Kenyan government if demand from private operators does not meet expectations.