A press release from Bharti Airtel stated today, that it has joined SEA-ME-WE 6 undersea cable consortium with an objective to scale up its high-speed global network capacity and to serve India’s highly discussed digital economy. In an official statement, India’s one of the leading telcos, Bharti Airtel stated, “We are anchoring 20% of the overall investment in the cable system, which is proposed to go live by 2025”.
The 19,200 Route Kilometers (Rkm) will cover Singapore to France. The other 12 consortium members of SEA-ME-WE 6 are Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company, Dhigaaru (Maldives), Djibouti Telecom, Moliby (Saudi Arabia), Orange (France), Singtel (Singapore), Sri Lanka Telecom, Telecom Egypt, Telekom Malaysia, Telin (Indonesia).
India’s second-largest telco will add 100 TBps capacity to its global network. It has already acquired 1 fibre pair and will co-build another 4 fibre pairs between Singapore, Chennai and Mumbai as part of the cable system, which will land at Airtel’s new landing stations in Mumbai and Chennai. SEA-ME-WE 6 will be integrated with Nxtra by Airtel’s large data centres in Mumbai and Chennai to enable global hyperscallers to access seamless integrated solutions.
As stated by Ajay Chitkara, Director and CEO, Airtel Business, “Our investment is SEA-ME-WE 6 is another step in the journey to future proof our network and build large integrated capacities to enable India’s digital ecosystem”.