NEW DELHI: Alcatel-Lucent has signed a turnkey contract with a consortium of nine telecom players to deploy a new submarine cable network linking Mumbai to Marseilles in France, which is over 13,000 km away.
The new submarine cable network meets the need for enhanced backhaul communication capabilities along the India-Western Europe route as well as for increased capacity to support high bandwidth broadband services, according to a statement by the company.
The companies that form the consortium are Bharti, Etisalat, France Telecom, Ogero Telecom, PTCL, STC, Telecom Egypt Telecom Italia Sparkle and VSNL. With the completion expected in the last quarter of 2009, the network will help support the global traffic growth driven by the need of peer-to-peer IP based services including video applications, broadband internet, downloading, voice and video calling.
Source : EconomicTimes
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