(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Omantel has teamed up with 16 prominent service providers around the world to construct a new high capacity system – the Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1) cable system.
The Construction and Maintenance Agreement (C&MA) was inked in Hong Kong to officially mark the commencement of this infrastructure project.
Spanning around 25,000km, the AAE-1 submarine cable is one of the first unique cable systems to connect Hong Kong to Singapore (via Thailand), Africa and Europe via Oman and provide an alternative and low latency short route between Hong Kong/Singapore and Europe, an Omantel press release said.
Omantel's extensive international network will provide additional protection and diversity to the AAE-1 cable system through other systems like EPEG, which is a recently launched major high-capacity system consisting of redundant undersea cables to Iran and onwards terrestrial cable all the way via Azerbaijan and Russia to Frankfurt, avoiding existing heavily congested cable systems and crowded bottlenecks on the route between Asia and Europe.
AAE-1 will employ 100Gbps technology with wavelength add/drop branching units along the route with a designed capacity of more than 40 terabits. One of the unique features of the submarine system is that it ends in Singapore, but continues further into Asia through terrestrial routes via Thailand connecting Cambodia, Vietnam and Hong Kong. Additionally, having two diversified Point of Presence (PoP) in Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore), the landing at Omantel's Middle East hub and three onward connectivity options to Europe (via France, Italy and Greece) will provide the requisite flexibility for the participating carriers and its customers.
''AAE-1 is one of the largest cable systems ever launched and will stipulate an exponential business growth in participating countries by providing robust, reliable and low latency connectivity. Omantel is very proud to be part of this exciting project'', said Omantel's CEO Dr Amer al Rawas. The target completion date for the AAE-1 cable is in 2016
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