By Bernama, New Straits Times

SINGAPORE: The Southeast Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 5 (SEA-ME-WE 5) undersea cable was successfully landed by Singtel at Tuas, Singapore.

The SEA-ME-WE 5 cable system is being developed by a consortium comprising 17 global players, including Telekom Malaysia.

On the Malaysian side, Telekom Malaysia landed the SEA-ME-WE 5 submarine cable in Melaka in January this year.

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The cable system will deliver 24 Terabits per second of capacity using 100 gigabits per second fibre optic transmission technology.

Construction of the SEA-ME-WE 5, which will link 17 countries from France to Indonesia, began in September 2014, it said.

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