The project is to set up a national network in Saudi Arabia and also to connect the country with Sudan, Yemen, Oman and the United Arab Emirates by undersea cable by December 2013…
This will create the world’s largest test site for wave energy technology and consists of a grid-connected socket in the seabed, 16 kilometres off the coast
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The fourfold rise in capacity in the state-of-the-art dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) cable will increase the original design capacity from the existing 10Gb/s DWDM to 40Gb/s expansion
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The total project cost of the new cable is estimated at US$400
million, and comprises of at least two fibre pairs with 64 wavelengths per fibre pair...
