Telecom industry

Layer model

Content, Apps, Services

Software
Pipes

A connected World

Internets undersea world

Undersea cable

International laws on submarine cables

1884: International Convention for the Protection of Submarine

Cables
1982 : UNCLOS= UN Convention of Law on Seas

SEA-ME-WE4

SEA-ME-WE4

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S1: Taus Mumbai;

South East Asia-Middle East- Western Europe4 (SEA-ME-WE4) cable

:20,000 km (approx)
S1: Taus Mumbai;S2: Mumbai Suez;
S3: Suez- Cairo; S4: Cairo - Marseille
telephone, internet, multimedia and broadband data applications
data transmission rate: 1.28Tbit/s

SEA-ME-WE4

developed by a consortium of 16
Telecos
Start date :27 March 2004.
End date : 13 December 2005
Period : 18 months
Cost : US$500 million.
Construction :
Alcatel Submarine Networks (now
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Network
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SEA-ME-WE4
Fujitsu :Construction of SEA-MEWE 4 Submarine Cable Network
20,000 km optical submarine cable
network from Singapore to France
SEA-ME-WE 4 contract:
constructing 8,000 km (approx)
submarine OFC network:
Singapore - Mumbai
(Segment 1),
supplying the entire system for
Segment 1.
supplied submarine repeaters for
the Mediterranean Sea segment
(Segment 4).

SEA-ME-WE4 consortium :16 Telecos

1. Algrie Tlcom, Algeria

2. Bharti Infotel Limited, India
3. Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSC
CL)
, Bangladesh
4. CAT Telecom Public Company Limited, Thailand
5. Emirates Telecommunication Corporation
(ETISALAT), UAE
6. France Telecom - Long Distance Networks, France
7. MCI, UK
8. Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited,
Pakistan

SEA-ME-WE4 consortium :16 Telecos

1. Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), Singapore
2. Sri Lanka Telecom Limited (SLT), Sri Lanka
3. Saudi Telecom Company (STC), Saudi Arabia
4. Telecom Egypt (TE), Egypt
5. Telecom Italia Sparkle S.p.A., Italy
6. Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM), Malaysia
7. Tunisie Telecom, Tunisia
8. Tata Communications Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited
(VSNL), India

SEA-ME-WE4 consortium :Organization

Mgmt Control

Procurement
Group

global communication by
significantly increasing
the bandwidth and global
connectivity of users
along its route between
Singapore and France.

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Central Billing
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Network
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Investment &
Agreement

SEA-ME-WE3

SEA-ME-WE 3

SEA-ME-WE 3 is far longer at 39,000 km

(compare to SEA-ME-WE 4's 18,800 km)
extends from Japan and Australia
along the bottom of the Eurasian landmass to Ireland and Germany
SEA-ME-WE3 data transmission : 10Gbit/s

Submarine Communication cables

North Sea
English Channel

North Atlantic
Ocean

Mediterranean
Sea
Red Sea
Arabian Sea
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean