I-ME-WE
I-ME-WE | |
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Owners: consortium of 9 companies | |
Landing points | |
Total length | 13000 km |
Design capacity | 3.84 Terabits/sec |
Date of first use | 2009 |
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I-ME-WE (India-Middle East-Western Europe) is a 13,000-kilometre (8,100 mi)[1] submarine communications cable system between India and France. The design capacity is 3.84 Terabits per second. It has been operational since 2009 with Tripoli, Lebanon being connected in November 2011.[2] Internet Service Providers and Network Operators hope to utilize the additional bandwidth to support high-bandwidth peer-to-peer IP-based broadband services such as multimedia streaming, broadband Internet and voice/video telephony.[3]
The cable system includes a terrestrial link connecting the cities of Alexandria and Suez in Egypt. The I-ME-WE cable system comprises three optical fiber cable pairs and 2 trunk lines. It has cable landing stations at:
- Mumbai (India) (two landing sites)
- Karachi (Pakistan)
- Fujairah (UAE)
- Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)
- Suez (Egypt)
- Alexandria (Egypt)
- Tripoli (Lebanon) Note: not Tripoli, Libya
- Catania (Italy)
- Marseille (France)
The cable system was funded by a consortium of 9 companies from across the world:[4]
- Bharti Airtel (India)
- PTCL (Pakistan)
- Etisalat (UAE)
- France Telecom (France)
- Ogero (Lebanon)
- STC (Saudi Arabia)
- Telecom Egypt (Egypt)
- Telecom Italia Sparkle (Italy)
- Tata Communications (formerly VSNL) (India)
The contract for the construction and maintenance of the cable system has been awarded to Alcatel-Lucent. Also, this network system extension is contracted to Mitsubishi Electric.
See also[]
Other cable systems following a substantially similar route are:
- Europe-India Gateway (EIG)
- FLAG Europe Asia
- SEA-ME-WE 3
- SEA-ME-WE 4
- SEA-ME-WE 5
References[]
- ^ "Alcatel-Lucent to build undersea cable". Business Standard. 2008-02-13. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ^ "Bharti Airtel starts Mideast data services". Business Times Malaysia. 2009-12-29. Retrieved 2010-01-09.[dead link]
- ^ "Imewe Picks Alcatel-Lucent". UnStrung. 2008-02-11. Archived from the original on 2016-05-23. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ^ Shanbhag, Raju (2008-02-11). "Global Telecom Leaders to Build I-Me-We Cable System". TMCnet. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
External links[]
- Submarine communications cables in the Arabian Sea
- Submarine communications cables in the Indian Ocean
- Submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea
- Submarine communications cables in the Red Sea
- Bharti Airtel
- 2009 establishments in Africa
- 2009 establishments in Asia
- 2009 establishments in Europe