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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedVSNL signs MoU for laying marine cable to link West Europe, Middle East, and India.(Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd.)(Brief article)
India Telecom, December, 2006
Tata-owned VSNL signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with chief global telecom companies to link Western Europe, the Middle East, and India with a submarine cable. International telecom service providers VSNL, Telecom Italia Sparkle, Telecom Egypt, Saudi Telecom, and Etisalat have signed this MoU. The cable will connect France, Italy, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and India.
By late 2006, contracts will be given to begin operating from mid-2008. With this contract, connecting to Western European, North and East African, Middle Eastern, and Asian regions will become faster, which will also match the growing demand. The cable network will be built with dense wavelength division multiplexing technology, which is a design having capacity of 2.56 Terabits per second.
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