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SEA-ME-WE-4 SUBMARINE CABLE |
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The submarine cable system with which Bangladesh is currently connected through BSCCL is a high capacity optical fiber Submarine Cable System linking 16 companies of 14 countries. It is called the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe- 4 (SEA-ME-WE-4) cable network and is under an International Consortium. It has a total length of 20,000 km with 1.28 Terabit/Sec ultimate capacity. Fujitsu of Japan and Alcatel of France jointly construced the submarine cable system and with the system, Densed Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) Technolgy was introduced in Bangladesh. | |
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| Project Name |
Establishment of international telecommunication facility through submarine cable |
| Project Value |
62,810.63 Lakh Taka (Local: 15,144.63 + Foreign: 47,000.00 Lakh Taka) |
| Foreign assistance by Islamic Development Bank (IDB) |
37,984.66 Lakh Taka |
| Number of consortium members |
16 international telecommunication companies of 14 countries. |
| Members of the Consortium |
Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, UAE, Pakistan, Saudi Arab, Egypt, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria and France. |
| Length of submarine cable |
20,000 kilometer |
| Length of Bangladesh branch |
1260kilometer submarine cable (from the main cable set deep in the sea to the Kolatoli beach manhole in Cox's Bazar) |
| Length from the beach manhole to the Jhilanja landing station |
4.5 kilometer optical fiber |
| Cable landing station |
Jhilongja, Cox'sbazaar |
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Present capacity available |
44.6 Gigabit per sec. |
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