Pakistan has significantly enhanced its global digital connectivity with the deployment of the Southeast Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 6 (SEA-ME-WE 6) submarine cable system.
According to the Ministry of Information Technology, the system spans 19,200 km and is a high-capacity fiber-optic network connecting Pakistan with countries between Singapore and France.
The Ministry stated that the cable offers more than 100 Tbps of total capacity, providing one of the lowest-latency routes between Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Western Europe.
The consortium behind SEA-ME-WE 6 includes Transworld Associates (Pakistan), Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company, Airtel (India), Dhiraagu, Djibouti Telecom, Mobily, Orange, Singtel, Sri Lanka Telecom, Telecom Egypt, Telekom Malaysia, and Telin.
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The statement added that SEA-ME-WE 6 features multiple fiber pairs and delivers double the capacity of previous SEA-ME-WE systems, enhancing resilience and routing diversity across high-traffic Asia–Europe paths through geographically diverse crossings and landing points, including Trans-Egypt routes.
This upgraded system enables rapid scalability, improved fault protection, and lower total network ownership costs for participating service providers, while adding essential new capacity to the global internet backbone.
Under this deployment, Pakistan has been allocated 13.2 Tbps, of which 4 Tbps is being activated immediately to boost the country’s international bandwidth capacity. This will support cloud services, data centers, fintech, e-commerce, streaming platforms, and the broader digital economy.
