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I-ME-WE (India-Middle East-Western Europe) is a submarine communications cable system linking Europe and India via the Middle East. At launch, the design capacity was 3.84 Tbit/s, but after upgrades by
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in 2016, the new design capacity was rated at 5.6 Tbit/s. The cable entered service in December 2010. The cable consists of three fiber pairs, one of which is a terrestrial link connecting
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in Egypt. The contract for construction and maintenance of the cable was awarded to Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN), supported by
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as subcontractor, at a total cost of US$480 million.


Landing points and operators

The IMEWE consortium comprises nine telecom companies across eight countries.


See also

Other cable systems following a substantially similar route are: * Europe-India Gateway (EIG) * FLAG Europe Asia *
SEA-ME-WE 3 SEA-ME-WE3 or South-East Asia - Middle East - Western Europe 3 was an optical submarine telecommunications cable linking those regions and is the longest in the world. Completed in late 2000, it is led by France Telecom and China Telecom, and i ...
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SEA-ME-WE 4 South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) is an optical fibre submarine communications cable system that carries telecommunications between Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, United Arab E ...
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SEA-ME-WE 5 South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 5 (SEA-ME-WE 5) is an optical fibre submarine communications cable system that carries telecommunications between Singapore and France. The cable is approximately 20,000 kilometres long and provides ...


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Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:I-Me-We Submarine communications cables in the Arabian Sea Submarine communications cables in the Indian Ocean Submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea Submarine communications cables in the Red Sea Bharti Airtel 2009 establishments in Africa 2009 establishments in Asia 2009 establishments in Europe 2009 establishments in Maharashtra