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SEA-ME-WE 5

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The fifth of the South East Asia – Middle East – Western Europe consortium cables, ready for service on 13 December 2016, running roughly 20,000 km from Singapore to southern France and Italy with an ultimate design capacity given as 24 Tbps. Its landing points are the Journey in miniature: Tuas in Singapore, Malacca in Malaysia, Dumai and Medan in Indonesia, Kuakata in Bangladesh, Ngwe Saung in Myanmar, Matara in Sri Lanka, Karachi in Pakistan, Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, Qalhat in Oman, Haramous in Djibouti, Al Hudaydah in Yemen, Yanbu in Saudi Arabia, Zafarana and Abu Talat in Egypt, Marmaris in Turkey, Catania in Italy and Toulon in France. Read that list as geography rather than as a list and the whole argument of this Journey appears: the cable threads the Strait of Malacca, crosses the Indian Ocean, enters the Red Sea through the Bab el-Mandeb, comes out of the water in Egypt and travels overland to the Mediterranean. It is owned by a consortium of nineteen operators, which is the older ownership model — many national carriers sharing one asset — and it stands in deliberate contrast in this pack to the cables now built by a handful of content companies.

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  1. Story
  2. The fifth of the South East Asia – Middle East – Western Europe consortium cables, ready for service on 13 December 2016, running roughly 20,000 km from Singapore to southern France and Italy with an ultimate design capacity given as 24 Tbps. Its landing points are the Journey in miniature: Tuas in Singapore, Malacca in Malaysia, Dumai and Medan in Indonesia, Kuakata in Bangladesh, Ngwe Saung in Myanmar, Matara in Sri Lanka, Karachi in Pakistan, Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, Qalhat in Oman, Haramous in Djibouti, Al Hudaydah in Yemen, Yanbu in Saudi Arabia, Zafarana and Abu Talat in Egypt, Marmaris in Turkey, Catania in Italy and Toulon in France. Read that list as geography rather than as a list and the whole argument of this Journey appears: the cable threads the Strait of Malacca, crosses the Indian Ocean, enters the Red Sea through the Bab el-Mandeb, comes out of the water in Egypt and travels overland to the Mediterranean. It is owned by a consortium of nineteen operators, which is the older ownership model — many national carriers sharing one asset — and it stands in deliberate contrast in this pack to the cables now built by a handful of content companies.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Malacca (Melaka)
  5. SEA-ME-WE 5
  6. The Red Sea cable corridor
  7. The Strait of Malacca
  8. The Egyptian cable land crossing
  9. Connections
  10. Malacca (Melaka)
  11. The Egyptian cable land crossing
  12. The Strait of Malacca
  13. The Red Sea cable corridor
  14. SEA-ME-WE 5 is ready for service
  15. Islam
  16. The Moluccas (Maluku Islands)
  17. Elite and state adoption as a diffusion mechanism
  18. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
  19. Albuquerque takes Malacca
  20. SEA-ME-WE 5
  21. Porthcurno cable station
  22. SEA-ME-WE 5
  23. The Red Sea cable corridor
  24. Alexandria
  25. Telecom Egypt
  26. SEA-ME-WE 5 is ready for service
  27. Singapore
  28. SEA-ME-WE 5
  29. The cable chokepoint
  30. SEA-ME-WE 5 is ready for service
  31. SEA-ME-WE 5
  32. The cable chokepoint
  33. The Egyptian cable land crossing
  34. SEA-ME-WE 5 is ready for service
  35. A sinking ship's anchor severs Red Sea cables
  36. SMW4 and IMEWE are cut near Jeddah
  37. Evidence
  38. Supports the ready-for-service date of 13 December 2016, the system length of about 20,000 km, the ultimate design capacity of 24 Tbps, the nineteen-operator consortium and the landing-point list used in this pack. V55 verification basis: retrieved in summary, not opened. Branch landings on this system have changed since 2016 and the list should be read as the system as commissioned, not as it stands today.
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