SEA-ME-WE 4
| Cable type | Fibre-optic |
|---|---|
| Construction beginning | 2004 |
| Construction finished | 2005 |
| Design capacity | 1.28 Tbps (2005) 2.8 Tbps (2010) 4.6 Tbps (2015) |
| Lit capacity | 2.3 Tbits/s/pair (two fibre pairs) |
| Owner(s) | Consortium |
| Website | www.seamewe4.net |
South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) is an optical fibre submarine communications cable system that carries telecommunications between Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Egypt, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria and France. It is intended to be a complement to, rather than a replacement for, the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable.
The cable is approximately 18,800 kilometres long, and provides the primary Internet backbone between South East Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and Europe.
The SEA-ME-WE 4 system is divided into four segments with seventeen landing points:
The SEA-ME-WE 4 cable system was developed by a consortium of 16 telecommunications companies which agreed to construct the project on 27 March 2004. Construction of the system was carried out by Alcatel Submarine Networks (now a division of Alcatel-Lucent) and Fujitsu. The eighteen month construction project was completed on 13 December 2005 with a cost estimate of US$500 million. Segment 1 construction, running 8,000 kilometres from Singapore to India, was done by Fujitsu, which also provided the submarine repeater equipment for Segment 4.
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