Bharti Airtel joins SEA-ME-WE-6 undersea cable consortium as major investor; anchoring 20% investment 

Bharti Airtel joins SEA-ME-WE-6 undersea cable consortium as major investor; anchoring 20% investment 

  • Telecom operator Bharti Airtel Ltd has announced that it has joined the SEA-ME-WE-6 undersea cable consortium, in a bid to scale up its high speed global network capacity and serve India’s fast growing digital economy.

What is SEA-ME-WE 6?

  • It stands for South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 6.
  • SEA-ME-WE 6 is a proposed optical fibre submarine communications cable system to carry telecommunications between Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Western Europe.
  • SEA-ME-WE-6 is a 19,200 km network, which will run from Singapore to France.
  • It will have a bandwidth of 120 Tbps
  • The system is scheduled to go LIVE in 2025.
  • Once operational, it will be amongst the largest undersea cable systems globally.

Airtel’s investment

  • Airtel will be the major investor in the SEA-ME-WE-6. It shall be anchoring 20 percent of the overall investment in the cable system.
  • Through SEA-ME-WE-6, Airtel will be able to add 100 TBps capacity to its global network.
  • The telco will land the SEA-ME-WE-6 cable system in India at new landing stations in Mumbai and Chennai.
  • Apart from Airtel, there are 12 other global members in the consortium.

Points to Remember:

  1. Which Indian telecom company has joined SEA-ME-WE-6 undersea cable consortium?
  2. Overall length of SEA-ME-WE-6?
  3. What percent of investment will anchored by Airtel in the consortium?
  4. SEA-ME-WE-6 cable system in India will be located at which place? Mumbai and Chennai
  5. SEA-ME-WE-6 will be operational from which year?
  6. SEA-ME-WE-6 will run between which countries?

Source: Business Standard

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