SEA-ME-WE-5 today announced the completion of its 20,000 km long under-sea submarine cable that also connects to Pakistan through a TWA landing station in Karachi.
SEA-ME-WE-5 will be managed and maintained by TWA in Pakistan, which is part of the consortium along with other leading telecom operators from 16 countries.
With this, 24Tbps of additional internet bandwidth is made available to Pakistan.
SEA-ME-WE-5 is a 20,000Km long cable system that connects Singapore to Europe (Italy and France) and traverses Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Oman, UAE, Yemen, Djibouti and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Not to mention, end users should not expect immediate increase in speeds. Instead, internet operators (telecom and ISPs) will now have the opportunity to buy wider pipes of internet bandwidth that will ultimately benefit end-users.
Just in case if you are wondering, Pakistan’s total internet capacity before today was less than 7 Tbps. With with SEA-ME-WE-5 going live, Pakistan’s new internet bandwidth capacity now hovers around 31 Tbps.
Pakistan’s international links and bandwidth capacity include:
- TW1 with design capacity of 1.28Tbps
- Sea-Me-We-3 with 480 Gbps capacity with two fiber pairs
- Sea-Me-We-4 with design capacity of 1.28Tbps
- I-ME-WE with design capacity of 3.86Tbps
- Sea-Me-We-5 with design capacity of 24Tbps
Soon to be Completed:
Following international links with landing points in Pakistan are under construction:
- AAE-1 with design capacity of 40 Tbps
- Silk Road Gateway-1 (With landing points in Karachi and Gwadar)
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Will this result in faster speeds for lower prices as well?
may be in the middle of 2k17 or @ the end of 2017
:)
how soon would the increase in capacity be seen either by better internet packages, speeds or any thing like that ?
(i might not have phrased is correctly but you guys get the idea)
Will this result in cheaper PTCL packages? Better ping?
I think PTCL should sell 8mb internet for 2000 instead of 3000 after this and I will be a happy man :D
I will rather be happy agar ye PTCL wale mera 2Mb hi challa dain without Disconnections
ptcl aapna sara network fiber per too kr ly pahlay then aap in cheezon ka PTCL ki service me soochna. copper per asa mumkin nhi :P
This cable is not related to PTCL. So PTCL’s capacity will only increase if they buy bandwidth from Transworld (which is unlikely)
Its managed by Transworld not PTCL. Pings will not be affected as they are more or less dependent on the physical distance between two points, overheads are minimal.
Don’t know is it because of this new submarine but i am getting 50-60 mbs on zong 4g from last 15 days earlier i was getting 30 mbs.
Apki tar khambay say direct hogi
hahahaha bohat tyt @Sheraz
lol
بھائی ایک سے سو تک گنتی تو سنانا ذرا ?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/35439bf9c9b6128329619d3eec8d06566a509deffefb57363073867e16803909.png
Lo janab yeh screen shot daikh lo aur mujhy umeed hy k ap khud aik hafty tk ginti sunye gy dosron ko
where ?
Gujranwala Model Town
great, they have moslty the awesome speeds, i get 33-40 mbps on 4g
Speed have been improved on my 4 mb PTCL connection as well https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a2a142634713dc1b9ead60fa49946c7271e9f5c2c2369ca7ee2670b6364ac7ef.png
فوٹوشاپ ہے ?
پی ایس: توانوں کی لگدا مینوں گنتی آندی؟ ?
Ap ko photoshop hi lagna hy kyon k ap ptcl ka tanga chalany py hilly howy hain.
I’m getting 27 Mbps in Peshawar
bai 4 pasiay laga k zong buy karo ta k dosro ko batay na kar sako. wasiay kisi dost say mang k he chec kar lo
gareeb loog kisi pay yaqeen he nahe kartay
Bro check the real throughput file size / total time…
This increase in capacity due to SMW5 will only benefit the end user if internet providers buy more bandwidth. so no, I doubt this is because of SMW5 becoming ready for service
same here
I heard PTCL is giving 2 MB as a ZAKAAT after reaching SEA-ME-WE-5… :P
#Ghareeb_Log
pkgs he na hoon to speed ka kiya karain gay
is 24tbps available to pk exclusively? i believe no. its the total capacity of the cable which is shared by many countries. Internet prices are already low in pk. I doubt any further reduction.
PK has two international cable operators. TWA and PTCL. PTCL will not benefit from the new cable from TWA. However, Zong and Mobilink will.
FYI international cable operators P.I.E and TW1 , PTCL bechara bhikaari hy :P PIE SE service lata hy
Full asan alfaz mai, is ka koi faida hoga aam awam ko #explainlikeiam5
yes after 6 to 10 month :)
Bhai ma zong 4g use kr rha hun.4mb max speed ati ha download at videos.to kya es cable k anay say zong 4g or fast hojayega k ni
@amir What will be expected capacity of Pakistan-china fiber optic back-haul ?
Speed is not everything, if this promises better latency to EU/US then sure will be a hit cause next gen requirement is online games, daas .. etc.
I’m a Nayatel user. Here’s the email I got last night regarding undersea cable up-gradation.
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Pakistan ki bandwidth quality kab increas ho gi?
InshaAllah Kala Bagh dam ban’ny sy pehly ho jae gii… :P
when Internet Providers start taking customer services seriously.
Good to hear
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No Words for you https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/beceecc56f10c419434190d3c34b4129a9b170b653e734a25134c5bba75ca3b9.gif
Also upload a 4k nangi movie of your sis or mo and share its link with me.
That is very encouraging news, BUT if there is no electricity then how this 31Tbps of internet will work? It like you have Ferrari but you dont have road to drive :). So who will solve that problem?
Kehri bandwidth bhaiyya?
Aythy mera net nai chalan daya
PTCL WALOOO KUCH KAROO :(
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