Telecom network vendor Alcatel-Lucent and NEC announced its deal with the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 5 (SEA-ME-WE 5) consortium of 15 operators to deploy a 100G undersea cable system.
The company did not announce the size of the deal.
SEA-ME-WE 5 system will span 20,000 km from Singapore to Europe, and will deliver design capacity of 24 Terabit per second (Tbit/s) to consumers and businesses.
The system will span 20,000 km connecting Singapore to France via Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Djibuti, Yemen, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Italy.
Alcatel-Lucent will be deploying the segments spanning from Sri Lanka to France. Co-contractor NEC will be deploying the Singapore to Sri Lanka segment.
Linette Lee, chairperson of the SEA-ME-WE 5 Management Committee said: “As more data, applications and services move to the cloud, we need a more dynamic and agile way to serve end-users according to low-latency and quality-of-service that cannot be solved by bandwidth alone.”
SEA-ME-WE 5 consortium has 15 operators including Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company, China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, China United Network Communications Group Company, Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, Orange, Myanma Posts and Telecommunications, Saudi Telecom Company, SingTel, Sri Lanka Telecom, TOT, PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia International, Telecom Italia Sparkle, Telekom Malaysia Berhad and Yemen International Telecommunications (TeleYemen).
