Int’l Submarine Cable Network in India

Made By:Agnimitra Ghosal

Presentation on Int'l Submarine Cable Network In India

Made ByAgnimitra GhosalComp: Bankai Group

Why we don’t use satellite Communication instead

Satellites are not use because they cannot carry terabytes of data for less than a billion dollars per communication line

The bandwidth available using a single fiber optic cable and laser beam is much much greater than you can get from a single satellite radio channel.

An undersea cable is a bundle of many fiber optic cables. You can have more channels, each with a higher capacity than you can build radio channels into satellite.

The uplinks and downlinks cost and putting the satellite in space is a huge ask and far more risky.

It is easy to fix a broken cable undersea where once we launch the satellite then it will be very difficult to resolve if there is any issue on satellite.

Introduction of submarine cable

Submarine cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of oceans.

Modern cables work with optical fiber technology to carry digital data, which includes telephone, Internet along with private data traffic.

Now all the continents are connected with each other via submarine cables across the globe and exchange high amount of data and voice traffic.

Submarine Cables and It’s History

The first submarine cable in the world was laid in the English Channel in 1851

In 1863 cable to Bombay, India (now Mumbai) provided a crucial link to Saudi Arabia

Submarine cable networks in the world were expanded gradually from 1866

In 1870, Bombay was linked to London via submarine cable In 1872, Australia was linked by cable to Bombay via Singapore and

China In 1876, the cable linked the British Empire from London to New ZealandAs the days past, many submarine cables are landed in India to fulfill the requirement for high data and Voice communications.

General Features of Submarine Cables

Long Distance Transmission Capability - Trans Pacific and Trans Atlantic

Big Bandwidth Transmission Capability - Suitable for data traffic, voice traffic and voice streaming

High Reliability - suitable for international e-commerce business

State of Art Technology - High quality services

Cross section view of a Submarine Cable

Submarine Cable Landing stations in India

There are now 10 submarine cable landing stations in India, with four in Mumbai, three in Chennai, and each in Cochin,Tuticorin and  Digha,

Tata Communications owns three cable landing stations, each in Mumbai, Chennai and Cochin.

Reliance Globalcom owns the Versova Cable Landing Station in Mumbai. Bharti Airtel owns three cables landing stations, two in Chennai and one

in Mumbai. Sify Technologies launched its cable landing station in Mumbai in January 2012. BSNL owns its first international submarine cable connecting India and Sri

Lanka and its cable landing station in Tuticorin.  The Digha Cable Landing Station in West Bengal is newly approved in May

2011 by the department of telecommunication (DoT) of India for a submarine cable project between India and South-east Asia. BNSL is expected to own the Digha Cable Landing Station.

Indian Submarine Cable Network Map

Submarine Cable

Landing Stations Inception Date

Landing Stations owned

byCapacity of existing

CableUtilized

Capacity(GBPS) Length

SMW3 Mumbai July, 2000 VSNL 480GB 20 39000KM

SMW4Chennai & Mumbai November,2011 Bharti and VSNL 1.8 TB 11, 16 18800KM

SAFE Cochin March,2002 VSNL 5GB 5 13104KM

FLAG (Reliance) Mumbai November,1997 VSNL 160 GB 10 27000 Km

I2I Chennai December,2002 BSNL 8.40 TB 12 3200KM

TIC Chennai March,2004 VSNL 5.10 TB 16 3175 Km

Falcon Mumbai Feb,2006 Reliance 2.56 TB 1 28000KMIndo- Sri Lanka

Cable Tuticorin March, 2006 BSNL 960 GB 40 320KM

Fault in submarine cables

Damage to submarine cables and cable networks are sustained mainly through three causes; negligent human activities, international human activities and natural hazards

Submarine Cable Repair and Maintenance

There is a case in which an optical fiber cable is cut or damaged due to ocean earthquakes and fishing gears etc..In the situation, the cable ship is urgently dispatched to the cable failure site and repairs the cable.The cable repair procedure normally consists of the followings: Localization of the cable failure point. Recovery of the failure cable onto the ship Cutting and removal of the cable failure section Jointing of the recovered cable and the spare cable in the cable tank of the ship Confirmation test and reburial of the cable

The Future of Submarine Cables

Today, nearly all voice and Internet traffic, including essential military and financial transmissions, travels through undersea fiber-optic cables.

Thus increasing the demand for higher bandwidth at reduced deployment cost and the need for additional routes to lower the latency and redundant cable systems.

$54 billion of undersea fiber optic investment to date. 2011: $1 billion worth of new systems entered service. Market average = $2 billion worth of new systems/year. According to a comprehensive market research report by Global Industry

Analysts, cumulative global installation of submarine optical fiber cable is projected to reach two million kilometers by 2018, up from just over a million kilometers in 2009.