The world’s highest-capacity undersea cable is to be laid between India and
Singapore. This should help solve the chronic bandwidth problem hampering
India’s fast-growing telecoms and software industries. The cable’s eight pairs
of optical fibres will carry data at 84,000 gigabits per second鈥攅nough to
handle 130 million telephone conversations at once. The link will have 210 times
the capacity of the two-year-old cable which currently connects India to
South-East Asia and the Middle East. Alcatel of France will build most of the
3200-kilometre link.
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