The deployment of the SEA-ME-WE 6 submarine cable system, a 19,200 km high-capacity fiber network connecting Pakistan to countries between Singapore and France.
ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan has strengthened its global digital connectivity with the deployment of the SEA-ME-WE 6 submarine cable system, a 19,200 km high-capacity fiber network connecting Pakistan to countries between Singapore and France.
With a total capacity of more than 100 Tbps, SEA-ME-WE 6 will provide one of the lowest latency routes between Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Western Europe, according to a press release from the IT Ministry.
According to officials, the development will greatly strengthen digital connectivity and reduce latency across major technology corridors.
Under the allocation plan, Pakistan will receive 13.2 terabits per second, with 4 tbps activated immediately.
Officials said the immediate jump in bandwidth will boost the country’s international capacity and provide vital support for cloud services, data centers, fintech operations, e-commerce platforms, streaming services and the wider digital ecosystem.
The ministry noted that SEA-ME-WE 6 incorporates “more fiber pairs and more than double the capacity” of previous iterations of the SEA-ME-WE network, increasing resilience across the heavily trafficked Asia-Europe passage.
The system’s trans-Egypt Pakinomist-diversified crossings and multiple landing points are designed to add redundancy, reduce failure risk and improve service continuity.
“The system enables rapid scalability, improved fault protection and lower total cost of network ownership for participating service providers, while adding significant new redundancy to the global Internet backbone,” the statement said.
