Telecom industry

Layer model

Content, Apps, Services

Software

Pipes
A connected World
Internet’s undersea world
Undersea cable
 International laws on submarine cables

1884: International Convention for the Protection of Submarine Cables

1982 : UNCLOS= UN Convention of Law on Seas
SEA-ME-WE4
 SEA-ME-WE4

S3: Suez- Cairo;

S2: Mumbai –Suez; S1: Taus – Mumbai;

•South East Asia-Middle East- Western Europe4 (SEA-ME-WE4) cable

:20,000 km (approx)
•S1: Taus – Mumbai;S2: Mumbai –Suez;
•S3: Suez- Cairo; S4: Cairo - Marseille
•telephone, internet, multimedia and broadband data applications
•data transmission rate: 1.28 Tbit/s
 SEA-ME-WE4
•developed by a consortium of 16
Telecos

•Start date :27 March 2004.

•End date : 13 December 2005

•Period : 18 months

•Cost : US$500 million.

•Construction :

•Alcatel Submarine Networks (now

Alcatel-Lucent Submarine
Networks)
• Fujitsu.
 SEA-ME-WE4
• Fujitsu :Construction of SEA-ME-
WE 4 Submarine Cable Network
• 20,000 km optical submarine cable
network from Singapore to France
• SEA-ME-WE 4 contract:
– constructing 8,000 km (approx)
submarine OFC network:
Singapore - Mumbai
(Segment 1),
– supplying the entire system for
Segment 1.
– supplied submarine repeaters for
the Mediterranean Sea segment
(Segment 4).
 SEA-ME-WE4 consortium :16 Telecos

1. Algérie Télécom, Algeria

2. Bharti Infotel Limited, India

3. Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited

(BSCCL), Bangladesh

4. CAT Telecom Public Company Limited, Thailand

5. Emirates Telecommunication Corporation

(ETISALAT), UAE

6. France Telecom - Long Distance Networks, France

7. MCI, UK

8. Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited,

Pakistan
 SEA-ME-WE4 consortium :16 Telecos

1. Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), Singapore

2. Sri Lanka Telecom Limited (SLT), Sri Lanka
3. Saudi Telecom Company (STC), Saudi Arabia
4. Telecom Egypt (TE), Egypt
5. Telecom Italia Sparkle S.p.A., Italy
6. Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM), Malaysia
7. Tunisie Telecom, Tunisia
8. Tata Communications Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited
(VSNL), India
 SEA-ME-WE4 consortium :Organization
Mgmt Control global communication by
significantly increasing the
bandwidth and global
connectivity of users along its
route between Singapore and
France.

Fin & Admin

Procurement Operations & Subcommittee Investment &
Group Maintenance Agreement

Central Billing Network

party Adminstrator
SEA-ME-WE3
 SEA-ME-WE 3

•SEA-ME-WE 3 is far longer at 39,000 km

•(compare to SEA-ME-WE 4's 18,800 km)
•extends from Japan and Australia

• along the bottom of the Eurasian landmass to Ireland and Germany

• SEA-ME-WE3 data transmission : 10 Gbit/s
 Submarine Communication cables

•North Sea
•English Channel

•North Atlantic
Ocean
•Mediterranean
Sea
•Red Sea
•Arabian Sea
•Indian Ocean
•Pacific Ocean