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SEA-ME-WE 5 is ready for service

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The nineteen-operator consortium brought into service a cable of about 20,000 km linking Singapore to France and Italy through seventeen countries, with an ultimate design capacity given as 24 Tbps. Its route is the Europe–Asia corridor in its standard form: Malacca, the Indian Ocean, the Bab el-Mandeb, the Red Sea, an overland crossing of Egypt, and the Mediterranean.

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  1. Story
  2. The nineteen-operator consortium brought into service a cable of about 20,000 km linking Singapore to France and Italy through seventeen countries, with an ultimate design capacity given as 24 Tbps. Its route is the Europe–Asia corridor in its standard form: Malacca, the Indian Ocean, the Bab el-Mandeb, the Red Sea, an overland crossing of Egypt, and the Mediterranean.
  3. Knowledge
  4. SEA-ME-WE 5
  5. The Red Sea cable corridor
  6. The Strait of Malacca
  7. The Egyptian cable land crossing
  8. SEA-ME-WE 5 is ready for service
  9. Connections
  10. SEA-ME-WE 5
  11. The Red Sea cable corridor
  12. The Egyptian cable land crossing
  13. The Strait of Malacca
  14. Malacca (Melaka)
  15. The Egyptian cable land crossing
  16. The Strait of Malacca
  17. The Red Sea cable corridor
  18. SEA-ME-WE 5 is ready for service
  19. SEA-ME-WE 5
  20. The cable chokepoint
  21. The Egyptian cable land crossing
  22. SEA-ME-WE 5 is ready for service
  23. A sinking ship's anchor severs Red Sea cables
  24. SMW4 and IMEWE are cut near Jeddah
  25. Porthcurno cable station
  26. SEA-ME-WE 5
  27. The Red Sea cable corridor
  28. Alexandria
  29. Telecom Egypt
  30. SEA-ME-WE 5 is ready for service
  31. Singapore
  32. SEA-ME-WE 5
  33. The cable chokepoint
  34. SEA-ME-WE 5 is ready for service
  35. Evidence
  36. 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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