Bay of Bengal Gateway

BBG

Cable type	Fibre-optic
Design capacity	55 Tbps (3 fibre pairs)
Lit capacity	9Tbps
Area served	South East Asia, Indian sub-continent, Middle East Asia
Owner(s)	Consortium
Website	https://www.bayofbengalgateway.com/

The Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) is a submarine communications cable being built to provide a direct trunk connection between Barka (Sultanate of Oman) and Penang (Malaysia) with four branches to Fujairah (UAE), Mumbai (India), Colombo (Sri Lanka) and Chennai (India). The project is being carried out by a consortium that includes Vodafone, Omantel, Etisalat, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Dialog and Telekom Malaysia. Construction started in May 2013 and was scheduled to be completed by the end of 2014. From Penang the system is connected via a terrestrial connection to Singapore. The length of the submarine Cable system is 5934 km from Barka to Penang, with a 216 km Branch to Fujairah, 426 km branch to Mumbai, 142 km branch to Colombo and a 1322 km branch to Chennai, totaling a total length of 8040 km.

The BBG Cable system creates a high-speed bridge between Europe, Middle East, Central Asia and the Far East, with Singapore being a major cable hub with connection into to the Far East and Barka in Oman with submarine and terrestrial connections to Europe, Africa and the GCC.

It has the following landing points

From Penang the system is connected via a terrestrial connection to Singapore.

The BBG Submarine Communications Cable build by Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks is a three fibre pair cable, with submerged Repeaters, submarine branching units and reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers and is based on 100G dense wavelength division multiplexing Coherent Technology, utilising wavelength add/drop branching units along the route with an overall design capacity of 10 Tbit/s per fibre pair, underpinning the continued bandwidth growth of new broadband applications and services in the Middle East, the Indian sub-continent and the Far East.

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