Bay of Bengal Gateway
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{{Infobox cable
| cable_name = BBG
| cable_logo = Logo of Bay of Bengal Gateway cable.png
| cable_type = Fibre-optic
| State = Operational
| predecessor =
| successor =
| construction_beginning = {{start date and age| May 2013}}
| construction_finished = {{start date and age|2014}}
| first_traffic =
| design_capacity = 55 Tbit/s (3 fibre pairs)
| lit_capacity = 10 Tbit/s
| built_by =
| defunct =
| landings =
| area_served = Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia
| owner = Consortium
| homepage = {{URL|https://www.bayofbengalgateway.com/|bayofbengalgateway.com}}
| footnotes =
}}
The Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) is a submarine communications cable providing a direct trunk connection between Barka (Sultanate of Oman) and Penang (Malaysia) with four branches to Fujairah (UAE), Mumbai (India), Colombo (Sri Lanka) and Chennai (India). The project was carried out by a consortium that includes Vodafone, Omantel, Etisalat, AT&T, China Telecom, Telstra, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Dialog and Telekom Malaysia. Construction was started in May 2013 and was completed by the end of 2014. From Penang the system is connected via a terrestrial connection to Singapore. The length of the submarine Cable system is {{convert|5934|km}} from Barka to Penang, with a {{cvt|216|km}} branch to Fujairah, {{cvt|426|km}} branch to Mumbai, {{cvt|142|km}} branch to Colombo and a {{cvt|1322|km}} branch to Chennai, totalling a total length of {{cvt|8040|km}}.
The BBG Cable system creates a high-speed bridge between Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, and the Far East, with Singapore being a major cable hub with connection into the Far East and Barka in Oman with submarine and terrestrial connections to Europe, Africa and the GCC.
Landing points
It has the following landing points:
- Barka (Sultanate of Oman)
- Penang (Malaysia)
- Fujairah (UAE)
- Mumbai (India)
- Mount Lavinia (Sri Lanka)
- Chennai (India)
From Penang the system is connected via a terrestrial connection to Singapore.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
Countries linked
See also
{{portal|Telecommunication}}
- List of international submarine communications cables
- Other submarine cables used to cross-connect with BBG
- EIG
- EPEG
- FALCON
References
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- {{cite news | url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323528404578454851455436538/ | title=Telecom Firms Form Group for Undersea Network | newspaper=The Wall Street Journal, Asian Business News | date=30 April 2013}}
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- {{cite news|url=http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/tm-joins-bay-bengal-gateway-104503930.html/ |title=Telekom Malaysia Joins Bay of Bengal Gateway |publisher=Finance Yahoo.com, source: The Edge Malaysia |date=30 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103225609/http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/tm-joins-bay-bengal-gateway-104503930.html |archivedate=3 January 2014 }}
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