New cable to link RI, S'pore

New cable to link RI, S'pore

SINGAPORE (DPA): A new submarine cable planned to link Singapore, Indonesia and Australia will have the capacity to handle 40 million simultaneous telephone calls, it was announced on Friday.

Dubbed "Nava-1," the 9,000-km cable with a minimum design capacity of holding 2,560 megabits per second of data will be the largest linking the three countries, said Nava Networks Development chief executive Charles Jarvie.

"Nava-1 effectively closes the loop with other major cable systems that terminate in Singapore and Sydney," Jarvie said in a statement published in The Straits Times.

Nava Networks is overseeing the building of Nava 1. It will still be smaller than the 650 million U.S. dollar cable being built by Singapore Telecom and India's Bharti Group which has a world-record bandwidth of 8.4 terabits per second.