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SEA-ME-EU 4 SUBMARINE CABLE |
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 capacity. Fujitsu of Japan and Alcatel of France jointly construced the submarine cable system and with the system, Densed Wevelength 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 in
abroad |
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 Jhilanga landing station |
4.5 kilometer
optical fiber |
| Cable landing
station |
Jhilongja,
Cox's Bazaar |
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