World Internet backbone cables

World Internet backbone cables:

SEA-ME-WE 4:

South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 4' (SEA-ME-WE 4) is the optical fiber submarine communication  cables laid between Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Egypt, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria and France.

This cable is approximately 18,800 km in length which is the backbone of Internet between South east Asia ,Europe and Indian subcontinent

The eighteen month construction project was completed on 13 December 2005 with a cost estimate of US$500 million.

Landing points

1. Marseille, France
2.  Annaba, Algeria
3. Bizerte, Tunisia
4. Palermo, Italy
5.  Alexandria, Egypt
6. Cairo, Egypt (overland)
7. Suez, Egypt (overland/return)
8. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
9. Fujairah, United Arab Emirates
10. Karachi, Pakistan
11. Mumbai, India
12. Colombo, Sri Lanka
13. Chennai, India
14. Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
15. Satun, Thailand
16. Melaka/Malacca, Malaysia
17. Tuas, Singapore

EIG:

Europe India Gateway (EIG) is a submarine communications cable system which is planned to connect the U.K., Portugal, Gibraltar, Monaco, France, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman, United Arab Emirates, and India.It will be about 15,000 kilometres long.

It will have cable landing points at:

1. Bude, UK
2. Sesimbra, Portugal
3. Gibraltar
4. Marseille,France
5. Monaco
6. Tripoli, Libya
7. Alexandria, Egypt then overland to Suez, Egypt, then submarine again
8. Jeddah Saudi Arabia
9. Djibouti
10. Muscat, Oman
11. Fujairah,United Arab Emirates
12. Mumbai,India

I-ME-WE:

I-ME-WE (India-Middle East-Western Europe) is a 13,000-kilometre  submarine communications cable system between India and France. The design capacity is 3.84 Terabits per second. The I-ME-WE cable system comprises three optical fibre cable pairs and 2 trunk lines. 

It has cable landing stations at:

1. Mumbai (India) (two landing sites)
2. Karachi (Pakistan)
3. Fujairah (UAE)
4. Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)
5. Suez (Egypt)
6. Alexandria (Egypt)
7. Tripoli (Lebanon) Note: not Tripoli, Libya
8. Catania (Italy)
9. Marseille (France)

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