Bharti Offers Sea-Me-We-4 With Higher Bandwidth

Bharti Offers Sea-Me-We-4 With Higher Bandwidth

Bharti Tele-Ventures has launched its next generation under sea cable system, South-East Asia, Middle East and Western Europe 4 (Sea-Me-We-4). Bharti launched this cable system in India as a part of a 16-company consortium. This move is likely to bring down the international leased line tariffs.

Badri Agarwal, president of Infotel, Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd, said, “As one of the founding members of the consortium, we are happy to have taken the lead in creating fresh bandwidth capacity from India to Europe. For a market which is showing a growth of over 100 per cent, Bharti has now doubled its data capacity.”

Set up with an investment of nearly $40 million, this cable system from Bharti offers a capacity of 160GB per second. It is set to benefit sectors such as IT & ITeS, banking and finance. It supports telephone, Internet, multimedia and various other broadband and data applications. This cable system will offer capacities of E1 (2 mega bits per second), DS3 (45 mbps) and STM-1 (155 mbps). Bharti would also sell full circuits to their customers in India.

The cable system has been jointly built by Alcatel Submarine Networks, France and Fujitsu, Japan. It features Terabit DWDM technology that allows ultra fast terabit per second connectivity.

Bharti’s cable system covers 20,000 km under the sea across the eastern and western worlds. The system connects India to Tuas (Singapore), Melaka (Malaysia), Satun (Thailand), Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Karachi (Pakistan), Fujairah (The UAE), Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Suez, Cairo and Alexandria (Egypt), Bizerte (Tunisia), Palermo (Italy), Annaba (Algeria) and Marseille (France).