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Posted on 01.02.06
The Sea-Me-We 4 submarine cable network has been put into service at intial capacity of 160 Gbps. Completed in 18 months, the Sea-Me-We 4 submarine cable network nearly spans 20,000 km - approximately half of the circumference of the globe - linking 14 countries from Singapore to France and relying on 16 landing points. This system is designed to last 25 years with full reliability, and with 32 times the initial capacity of the previous Sea-Me-We 3 system, which was installed in 1998. Filed under: New WDM Deployments Comments: 1 Comment »RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Leave a commentLine and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: |
[…] The recently comissioned Sea-Me-We-4 undersea fiber optic network "developed a shunt fault, at approximately 18 kilometers from the Karachi Cable Station after which the customers were routed immediately via SMW3 without any interruption." More details in Pakistan Daily Times. Filed under: New WDM Deployments and WDM Technology Comments: […]
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