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TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUBMARINE CABLE SYSTEM
From:
Aggo Akyea <[log in to unmask]>
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AAM (African Association of Madison)
Date:
Tue, 28 May 2002 11:46:00 -0500
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KUALA LUMPUR Tuesday, 28 May 2002 http://www.nst.com.my/

FIRST TELCO SUBMARINE CABLE SYSTEM LINKING MALAYSIA, AFRICA, EUROPE COMPLETED

KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. - The world's first telecommunications submarine cable system linking Malaysia with Africa and Europe is completed.

The completion of the high capacity optical fibre cable system project, with Telekom Malaysia as its majority shareholder, will provide faster and more efficient voice and date transmission for Telekom Malaysia customers The cable system spans 28,000km _ linking Europe, Africa and Asia for the first time.

Telekom Malaysias TelCo chief operating officer Dr Idris Ibrahim said the system would further enhance Telekom Malaysia's role as a major telecommunications player in Africa.

"With this system, Telekom Malaysia will be able to support our customers' requirement for voice, date and internet services to all destinations and promote Malaysia as the regional telecommunications hub", he added.

He said the system was built at a cost of US$638 million (RM2424 million). Telekom Malaysia's investment was US$50 million (RM190 million).

It connects Portugal, Spain, Senegal, Ghana, benin, Cote DIvoire, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, South Africa, France (Reunion), Mauritius, India and Malaysia.

The new network is part of Telekom Malaysia's ambitious drive to have an end-to-end global connection, thus realising its objective to become a world-class telecommunications provider.

Idris said with the new development, Malaysia could bridge the African continent to reach the Asia Pacific region and laid the platform for economic development and sustainable foreign investment between the continents.

The system, known as the SAT-3/WASC/SAFE, will have an ultimate capacity that will enable it to convey a total of 5.8 million simultaneous telephone channels or to transfer the contents of 35 Digital Video Device (DVD) disks in one second, offering its customers a huge increase in bandwidth access between the regions along with unparalleled quality of service to a number of new destinations with untapped potential.

Idris said the SAT-3/WASC/SAFE was perfectly positioned to offer reliable diversity and restoration to other East-West submarine cable systems, being the only fully submerged link between Europe and Asia.

With the system, Telekom Malaysia's services such as Internet Protocol (IP) Services, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Frame Relay, International Private Leased Circuits, Video/Audio Conferencing Services, Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) and other multimedia applications will gain faster network performance.

Telekom commissioned its first ever optical fibre submarine cable system in 1990, known as the Kuantan-Kinabalu network. It linked the Cherating station and Kota Kinabalu.

In 1992, the Brunei-Malaysia-Philippines network was operatinal. This was followed by the APC cable system connecting Malaysia with Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore in 1993.

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