SEA-ME-WE 2

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SEA-ME-WE-2
Cable type Fiber optic cable
operator 52
Landing points 14 landing points
overall length 18,337 km
technology Fiber optic cable
active since October 18, 1994

SEA-ME-WE 2 or South-East Asia - Middle East - Western Europe 2 is a submarine cable between Europe and Asia . It was put into operation in 1994 and connects 14 countries and three continents.

history

SEA-ME-WE 1 was the forerunner of the SEA-ME-WE 2 submarine cable. SEA-ME-WE 1 was laid as a copper coaxial cable for the transmission of telephone signals between Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. At the time of its completion in 1986, it was the longest telephone cable in the world at 13,585 km and the first such cable to be laid in the Indian Ocean .

In the dawning age of fiber optic connections, the capacity of SEA-ME-WE 1 was no longer sufficient, and SEA-ME-WE 2 began laying cables in 1988. The construction was carried out by an international consortium of 52 telecommunications companies. The cable segment between Jakarta and Singapore went live in June 1993, while the rest of the cable did so in October 1994. At the time of its completion, SEA-ME-WE 2 was the longest fiber optic cable in the world at 18,337 kilometers. The total cost of construction and installation was estimated at US $ 780 million.

The maximum transmission rate of the cable after commissioning in 1994 was 2 × 560 MBps. The cable can carry around 60,000 simultaneous phone calls.

Landing points

Location and landing points of the SEA-ME-WE-2 submarine cable. The map only shows the connectivity, not the exact course.

The cable has a total of 15 landing points.

  1. Marseille , France
  2. Algiers , Algeria
  3. Bizerte , Tunisia
  4. Palermo , Italy
  5. Marmaris , Turkey
  6. Pentaschinos , Cyprus
  7. Alexandria , Egypt
  8. Cairo , Egypt
  9. Suez , Egypt
  10. Jeddah , Saudi Arabia
  11. Djibouti
  12. Mumbai , India
  13. Colombo , Sri Lanka
  14. Jakarta , Indonesia
  15. Singapore

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b IGI Consulting (Ed.): Repeatered Submarine Fiber Optics Systems . Boston 1998, p. 64 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Anton A. Huurdeman: The Worldwide History of Telecommunications . 1st edition. John Wiley & Sons, 2003, ISBN 0-471-20505-2 , pp. 461-462 (English).
  3. ^ An in-depth study on the broadband infrastructure in South and West Asia. (PDF) UNESCAP, accessed on June 2, 2017 (English).