India-Middle East-Western Europe (IMEWE)

India-Middle East-Western Europe (IMEWE)

I-ME-WE (India-Middle East-Western Europe) is a 13,000-kilometre (8,100 mi)[1] submarine communications cable system between India and France. The design capacity is 3.84 Terabits per second. It has been operational since 2009[2]. Internet Service Providers and Network Operators hope to utilize the additional bandwidth to support high-bandwidth peer-to-peer IP-based broadband services such as multimedia streaming, broadband Internet and voice/video telephony.

The cable system includes a terrestrial link connecting the cities of Alexandria and Suez in Egypt. The I-ME-WE cable system comprises three optical fibre cable pairs and 2 trunk lines. It has cable landing stations at:

Mumbai (India) (two landing sites)
Karachi (Pakistan)
Fujairah (UAE)
Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)
Suez (Egypt)
Alexandria (Egypt)
Tripoli (Lebanon) Note: not Tripoli, Libya
Catania (Italy)
Marseille (France)

The cable system was funded by a consortium of 9 companies from across the world:

Bharti Airtel (India)
Etisalat (UAE)
France Telecom (France)
Ogero (Lebanon)
PTCL (Pakistan)
STC (Saudi Arabia)
Telecom Egypt (Egypt)
Telecom Italia Sparkle (Italy)
Tata Communications (formerly VSNL) (India)

The contract for the construction and maintenance of the cable system has been awarded to Alcatel-Lucent

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