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SEA-ME-WE 5
Cable typeFibre-optic
Construction beginning2014
Design capacity24 Tbps (3 fibre pairs)
Owner(s)Consortium
Websitehttp://www.seamewe5.com/

South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 5 (SEA-ME-WE 5) is an optical fibre submarine communications cable system currently under construction that will carry telecommunications between Singapore and France.[1] The cable will be approximately 20,000 kilometres long, and will provide broadband communications with a design capacity of 24 Terabits per second between South East Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and Europe.[2] The cable will connect Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Djibuti, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Italy, Turkey and France via 19 landing points.[3] The portion from France to Sri Lanka will be constructed by Alcatel-Lucent and the portion from Sri Lanka to Singapore by NEC.[3] Construction commenced in September 2014 and is expected to be completed in November 2016.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Alcatel-Lucent starts construction of Sea-Me-We 5 undersea cable system linking Singapore and France". Retrieved 2012-04-14.
  2. ^ "SEA-ME-WE 5". Retrieved 2015-04-14.
  3. ^ a b "SEA-ME-WE 5 Cable Map". Retrieved 2015-04-14.

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