{"id":104025,"date":"2025-11-26T12:42:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=104025"},"modified":"2025-11-26T12:42:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:42:34","slug":"high-speed-submarine-cable-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/high-speed-submarine-cable-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"High-speed submarine cable launched in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Islamabad: Pakistan has strengthened its global digital connectivity with the deployment of the South-East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 6 (SEA-ME-WE 6) submarine cable system, the Information Technology Ministry said on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 19,200-kilometre high-capacity fibre network links Pakistan with countries stretching from Singapore to France. According to the ministry, the cable has a total capacity of over 100 terabits per second, providing one of the lowest-latency routes between Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Western Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the new system, Pakistan has been allocated 13.2 terabits per second (Tbps) of bandwidth, with 4 Tbps being activated immediately. The expanded capacity is expected to support cloud services, data centres, fintech, e-commerce, streaming platforms, and the broader digital economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/starlink-registered-with-secp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">US-based satellite internet services firm \u2018Starlink\u2019 gets registered with SECP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SEA-ME-WE 6 features more fibre pairs and more than double the capacity of its predecessors, offering improved network resilience and diversified routing through trans-Egypt crossings and multiple landing points. The system also allows rapid scalability, enhanced fault protection, and lower total network ownership costs for participating service providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project consortium includes Pakistan\u2019s Transworld Associates, Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company, Bharti Airtel, Dhiraagu, Djibouti Telecom, Mobily, Orange, Singtel, Sri Lanka Telecom, Telecom Egypt, Telekom Malaysia, and Telin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This launch follows recent upgrades to Pakistan\u2019s submarine cable infrastructure, including the landing of the Africa-1 and Africa-2 cables in Karachi earlier this year. Currently, six submarine cables\u2014including AAE-1, SMW4, IMEWE, SMW-5, TWA-1, and PEACE\u2014serve Pakistan, collectively bringing the country\u2019s international internet capacity to 13 Tbps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials said the SEA-ME-WE 6 cable is expected to significantly improve internet speeds, connectivity, and reliability for Pakistan\u2019s businesses and consumers, while providing essential redundancy to the country\u2019s digital infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Pakistan has strengthened its global digital connectivity with the deployment of the South-East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 6 (SEA-ME-WE 6) submarine cable system, the Information Technology Ministry said on Saturday. The 19,200-kilometre high-capacity fibre network links Pakistan with countries stretching from Singapore to France. According to the ministry, the cable has a total capacity of over 100 terabits per second, providing one of the lowest-latency routes between Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Western Europe. Under the new system, Pakistan has been allocated 13.2 terabits per second (Tbps) of bandwidth, with 4 Tbps being activated immediately. The expanded capacity is expected to support cloud services, data centres, fintech, e-commerce, streaming platforms, and the broader digital economy. Read: US-based satellite internet services firm \u2018Starlink\u2019 gets registered with SECP SEA-ME-WE 6 features more fibre pairs and more than double the capacity of its predecessors, offering improved network resilience and diversified routing through trans-Egypt crossings and multiple landing points. The system also allows rapid scalability, enhanced fault protection, and lower total network ownership costs for participating service providers. The project consortium includes Pakistan\u2019s Transworld Associates, Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company, Bharti Airtel, Dhiraagu, Djibouti Telecom, Mobily, Orange, Singtel, Sri Lanka Telecom, Telecom Egypt, Telekom&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":64102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[69499,69500,69501,54759,14405,62786,69497,63407,69496,46073,32,69502,69495,69494,69498],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-104025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-notices-announcements","tag-bandwidth-expansion","tag-cloud-services","tag-data-centres","tag-digital-infrastructure","tag-e-commerce","tag-fintech","tag-global-network","tag-high-speed-internet","tag-internet-connectivity","tag-it-ministry","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-telecom","tag-sea-me-we-6","tag-submarine-cable","tag-transworld-associates","cat-15017-id"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>High-speed submarine cable launched in Pakistan - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This launch follows recent upgrades to Pakistan\u2019s submarine cable infrastructure, including the landing of the Africa-1 and Africa-2 cables...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/high-speed-submarine-cable-launched.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"High-speed submarine cable launched in Pakistan - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This launch follows recent upgrades to Pakistan\u2019s submarine cable infrastructure, including the landing of the Africa-1 and Africa-2 cables...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/high-speed-submarine-cable-launched.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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