SEA-ME-WE 5 is ready for service
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.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- SEA-ME-WE 5 · infrastructure · Indian Ocean, Red Sea and Mediterranean · not located
- The Red Sea cable corridor · maritime region · Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
- The Egyptian cable land crossing · corridor · Egypt · not located
- The Strait of Malacca · maritime region · South-East Asia
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
SEA-ME-WE 5 system description and fact sheet
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.
SEA-ME-WE 5 consortium, via submarinenetworks.com · 2016-12-13 · Partly verified
SEA-ME-WE 5 fact sheet and system record, seamewe5.com and submarinenetworks.com
Recorded on SEA-ME-WE 5
- SEA-ME-WE 5 is ready for service
- A sinking ship's anchor severs Red Sea cables
- SMW4 and IMEWE are cut near Jeddah
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