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The deployment of another submarine cable that will link Asia with Europe begins

the telecommunications company singtelfrom Singapore, has confirmed that the deployment of another submarine cable that will link Asia and Europe has begun. It is a fiber optic cable, 19,200 kilometers long, which will connect Singapore with France. This new wiring system will be given the name of Southeast Asia – Middle East – Western Europe 6 (SEA-ME-WE 6) and will offer one of the lowest latencies among these regions.

This submarine cable will also have a transfer rate of 100 Terabytes per second, and will depart from Singapore to pass through the coasts of Malaysia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, India, Pakistan, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

According to him director of Sintel, and President of the consortium in charge of the deployment of the submarine cable, Yue Meng Faithe team has been working on the implementation of the cable for approximately two years, and its deployment and commissioning was decided by the growing demand for connectivity expected by the global digitalization detected a little over two years ago.

The prediction made then was not far off the mark, as broadband needs have increased even more significantly, thanks to consumption habits during the pandemic. Of course, the cable will not be ready until the first quarter of 2025, so its promoters will have to wait a few years to improve connectivity and latency between regions.

As its name suggests, there are several cables already linking the regions of Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Western Europe. numbers 3, 4 and 5 connect Europe with Asia, and some extend this connection even further. But they have not been without problems, highlighting the need for another redundant cable.

Among the incidents suffered in these cables is the arrest in 2013 of three divers when they were trying to saw the SEA-ME-WE 4. And this same cable, like the SEA-ME-WE 3, suffered damage in 2008 due to the anchor of a boat. This latest incident, which was repaired in the shortest possible time, left 75% of Egypt without Internet access. In addition, its effects spread to other areas. Due to these and other problems, having redundancy in the cables that connect the two regions is considered a good idea.

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