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SEA-ME-WE 5

The SEA-ME-WE 5 (SMW5) is a 20,000km submarine cable system connecting 17 countries through Points-of-Presence (POPs) from Singapore to the Middle East to France and Italy in Western Europe, with an initial system design capacity of 24 Tbps over 3 fiber pairs.

The SMW5 cable system has three fiber pairs between Singapore and Egypt, and four fiber pairs crossing Egypt to Europe.

The SEA-ME-WE 5 consortium consists of 19 leading telecom operators, including BSCCL, China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, China Unicom, Djibouti Telecom, Du, Myanmar Post and Telecom, Orange, Ooredoo, Telin, Saudi Telecom, SingTel, Sri Lanka Telecom, Telecom Italia Sparkle, Telecom Egypt, Telekom Malaysia, Telecom Yemen, Turk Telecom and Transworld. The SMW5 consortium signed the construction and maintenace agreement on March 7, 2014.

Alcatel-Lucent and NEC were awarded the SMW5 supply contracts, Alcatel-Lucent supplied the segments from Sri Lanka to France, while NEC supplied the Singapore to Sri Lanka segment.

The SMW5 cable system was ready for service on December 13, 2016.

In August 2019, the SMW5 cable system completed an ungrade with Ciena's coherent 200G DWDM technology, increasing SMW5 system design capacity to 38Tbps.

SMW5 cable map

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Title Published Date Hits
SMW5 Cable System Upgrades with Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme 15-11-19 Hits: 2645
SEA-ME-WE 5 Wins the Best Subsea Innovation Award 27-11-17 Hits: 2089
SEA-ME-WE 5 Cable Project Completed 15-12-16 Hits: 5761
Transworld Completes SMW5 Landing in Pakistan 20-09-16 Hits: 4494
Sri Lanka Telecom Makes SMW5 Full Landing Ready 05-06-16 Hits: 4266
SEA-ME-WE 5 Lands in France 07-05-16 Hits: 5539
Singtel Lands SEA-ME-WE 5 in Singapore 07-05-16 Hits: 3925
SEA-ME-WE 5 Fact Sheet 20-12-15 Hits: 4893
SEA-ME-WE 5 Cable System Landed in Dumai, Indonesia 20-12-15 Hits: 5627
Ooredoo Joins SMW5 Consortium 02-08-15 Hits: 3966

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