Ooredoo Oman, a top telecom provider in the Sultanate, has completed the landing of the Southeast-Middle East-Western Europe 5 (SEA-ME-WE 5) submarine cable system, a report said.

The 20,000-km cable installed at the company’s base station in Qalhat is being developed as a multi-regional data superhighway to boost data transmission, the Oman Observer report added.

The SEA-ME-WE 5 submarine cable has been designed with the latest upgradable 100Gbps technology, enabling an initial system capacity of 24Tbps per second on 3 fibre pairs, according to the report.

“The SEA ME WE 5 is a step towards realising the future of international cable systems in terms of capacity, diversity and network access for our valued customers,” Jim Maxwell, Ooredoo chief legal, regulatory and wholesale officer, was quoted as saying by Observer.

“We believe that with SEA ME WE 5 state-of-the-art technology, connectivity with the rest of the world will become a reality, contributing to the social and economic progress and integration of all included regions.”

The new SEA-ME-WE 5 cable system will link East Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe, providing the lowest latency and highest data rates of any fibre optic system. Construction of the cable system due to be completed by the end of this year, the report said.