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I-ME-WE (India-Middle East-Western Europe) is a submarine communications cable system between India and France. The design capacity is 3.84 Terabits per second. It has been operational since 2009 with Tripoli, Lebanon being connected in November 2011.〔 〕 Internet Service Providers and Network Operators hope to utilize the additional bandwidth to support high-bandwidth peer-to-peer IP-based broadband services such as multimedia streaming, broadband Internet and voice/video telephony. The cable system includes a terrestrial link connecting the cities of Alexandria and Suez in Egypt. The I-ME-WE cable system comprises three optical fibre cable pairs and 2 trunk lines. It has cable landing stations at: * Mumbai (India) (two landing sites) * Karachi (Pakistan) * Fujairah (UAE) * Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) * Suez (Egypt) * Alexandria (Egypt) * Tripoli (Lebanon) Note: not Tripoli, Libya * Catania (Italy) * Marseille (France) The cable system was funded by a consortium of 9 companies from across the world: * Bharti Airtel (India) * Etisalat (UAE) * France Telecom (France) * Ogero (Lebanon) * PTCL (Pakistan) * STC (Saudi Arabia) * Telecom Egypt (Egypt) * Telecom Italia Sparkle (Italy) * Tata Communications (formerly VSNL) (India) The contract for the construction and maintenance of the cable system has been awarded to Alcatel-Lucent. Also,this network system extension is contracted to Mitsubishi Electric. ==See also== Other cable systems following a substantially similar route are: * Europe-India Gateway (EIG) * FLAG Europe Asia * SEA-ME-WE 3 * SEA-ME-WE 4 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I-ME-WE」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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