BSNL Signs Deal To Lay Submarine Cable To Sri Lanka; To Relay Indian Multimedia Content To Island Na

Hindustan Times: India’s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Sri Lanka’s main telecom company SLT has signed a deal to lay a three million dollar submarine cable connecting the two countries. The fibre optic cable system will be established between India’s Tuticorine coast and Mount Lavinia, just south of the capital Colombo, and the line will be operational by the second quarter 2006.
The new connection will further extend the broadband IP backbone network to allow higher speeds and more effective transfers between the two countries.
“The cable will initially support 10 gigabits per second which will later be upgraded quickly to a maximum of 160 gigabits per second as traffic continues to grow. Customers at the Sri Lankan side of the cable will be able to better enjoy Indian multimedia content such as Hindi movies with actual real-time audio and video streaming facilities because of enhanced connectivity.

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