The Southeast Asia-Middle East-West Europe-6 (SEA-ME-WE 6) will connect India with Singapore and France (Marseille) while crossing Egypt through terrestrial cables. The submarine cable system will bring a 220 TBPs of global capacity to India.
Feb 20, 2025
Bharti Airtel Limited, one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers, has landed a new 21,700 rkm submarine cable system in Chennai, connecting India with Singapore and France (Marseille), while crossing Egypt through terrestrial cables.
With the landing of Southeast Asia-Middle East-West Europe-6 (SEA-ME-WE 6), Airtel has further enhanced its network presence with diversified capacity in the submarine cable system globally. The company had already landed the cable in Mumbai on December 30, 2024.
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These cable landings were completed by SubCom, a leading supplier of subsea fibre optic cable data systems responsible for the engineering, manufacture and installation of SMW6.
The cable landing, both in Mumbai and Chennai, will be fully integrated with Airtel’s data centre arm, Nxtra by Airtel, at its large facilities in the respective cities with an aim to enable global hyperscalers and businesses in the country to seamlessly access international connectivity and data centre services.
The submarine cable system will bring a whopping 220 TBPs of global capacity to India.
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Sharat Sinha, Director & CEO, Airtel Business, said, “The new milestone will improve our secure, diverse and scalable global network. We are delighted to further strengthen our global connectivity by landing one of the largest cable systems into our facilities. This complements our existing network strength of 400,000 rkm across 50 countries. This also underlines our commitment to address Digital India’s growing demand for global connectivity & data with additional routes, diversity and capacity.”
As a key member of the consortium of the SEA-ME-WE-6 cable system, Airtel has investment in the core cable and has additionally co-built a private network of four Fiber Pairs between Singapore, Chennai and Mumbai.
