ISLAMABAD – Cybernet Pakistan and Pakistan and East Africa ConnectingEurope (PEACE) Cable International Network Company Ltd. have signed alanding party agreement under which Pakistan will get its first openaccess, carrier-neutral submarine cable.
The new cable will enhance the country’s internet infrastructure capacityby 96 terabits per second. According to a press release, the agreement wassigned on April 16 in Cairo.From Left to Right: Mr. Chen Zhongmin – Cheif Technical Officer PEACECable, Mr. WU Qianjun – Cheif Executive Officer PEACE Cable and VP HengtongGroup and Mr. Danish Lakhani – Cheif Executive Officer Cybernet
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding the project was inked in2018. The PEACE cable system will interconnect the economic corridors ofEurope, Asia, and Africa with landings in Djibouti, Pakistan, Kenya, Egypt,and France.
It is a 12000 km-long, privately owned cable system that offers flexible,open, and carrier-neutral service to its customers. In the first phase, thesystem will connect Asia, Europe, and Africa. PEACE is projected tocomplete the project in the first quarter of 2020.
The project will allow carriers to cover the local population and offerthem gigabit speeds. It will help in meeting the persistently growingbandwidth demand from mobile and fixed broadband users in Pakistan andneighboring countries.
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“The system design will adopt the latest 200G technology and WSStechnology, which provides the capability to transmit over 16 terabits perfiber pair, servicing growing regional capacity needs,” states the pressrelease.
Cybernet, a PEACE Cable Landing Station Partner in Pakistan, will deploythe PEACE Pakistan Cable Landing Station (CLS) and manage its operations.
It will also build Pakistan’s first carrier-neutral cable landing stationfor PEACE cable in Karachi. Cybernet Pakistan CEO Danish Lakhani said onthe occasion,
