The Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) is a 8,000 km subsea cable system connect the UAE, Oman, India, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia, with a diverse terrestrial network from Malaysia to the Singapore points-of-presence at Equinix and Global Switch.

BBG consortium comprises AT&T, China Telecom, Dialog Axiata, Etisalat, Omantel, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Telekom Malaysia, Telstra and Vodafone Group.

Based on 100G DWDM coherent technology, BBG offers capacity of 10 Tbps per fibre pair on its three fiber pairs.

BBG goes live on April 8, 2016.