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Singtel completes shore landing of new undersea cable

Published Thu, Mar 10, 2016 · 09:50 PM

Singapore

SINGAPORE Telecommunications (Singtel) has completed the landing of the magnum 20,000 km South-east Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 5 (SEA-ME-WE 5) undersea cable at Tuas,

Singapore, marking a major step towards its completion by the end of the year.

The cable's design capacity is 24 terabits per second (tbps) on 3-fibre pairs. Once completed, the cable's advanced 100 gigabits per second (gbps) technology is expected to meet the quadrupling of bandwidth demand …

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