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 Work is well under way to construct a high-capacity fibre optic submarine cable network, as part of the Sea-Me-We 4 submarine optical network linking Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Western Europe. Fujitsu Limited, together with its co-contractor Alcatel, were selected by the Sea-Me-We 4 consortia to deliver the network as a turn-key project. The new terabit cable system will support more than 32 times the initial transmission capacity of the previous Sea-Me-We 3 network. The new cable system is over 20,000-km long, a length equivalent to half the Earth's circumference, and will link 14 countries from France to Singapore via Italy, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand and Malaysia with 16 landing points. The system is commissioned for start-up by July 2005.
The network caters to the demand among consortia countries for high-capacity transmission systems, which is expected to grow sharply over the next few years. The speedy and timely implementation of the Sea-Me-We 4 cable network is considered essential to meeting this rise in demand.
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