More Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) bandwidth for Internet service
ISLAMABAD- Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL) has leased STM-1 (155Mbits/s) IP bandwidth from Karachi to USA through Singapore Telecom to meet the Internet bandwidth requirement in Pakistan.
A press release issued here on Monday said that the connectivity had been established using the SEA-ME-3 optic fibre cable system from Pakistan to UK with onward transatlantic extension crossing No.1 System.
The step has been taken on the direction of Federal Science and Technology Minister Prof Attaur Rahman, who has instructed the PTCL to take steps to rule out service break and ensure 100 per cent restoration and backup service.
To ensure continuity of services and availability of bandwidth in case of submarine cable faults, the PTCL management has decided to convert the existing SEA_ME-3 We-3 STM-1 capacity to a fully restorable capacity.
This will involve an additional investment of $4 million per year. The arrangement will reduce the down time to hours instead of days which are required to repair the submarine cable system faults.
According to Singapore Telecom the restoration shall be arranged by them for PTCL within six weeks.
Professor Rahman has also instructed that arrangements should be planned to add 34Mbits/s of IP bandwidth satellite links.
Source: Dawn
Date:7/26/2001
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