Because of maintenance on the submarine cable system and bandwidth services at Patuakhali’s Kuakata station, internet users throughout Bangladesh may experience slow speeds or disruptions for four hours.
Remorseful for the inconvenience, Bangladesh Submarine Cables PLC, or BSCPLC, released a statement on Saturday.
The SEA-ME-WE 5, or SMW5, consortium has scheduled a lighting filter installation in the nation’s second submarine cable system at Kuakata for Sunday between 2:00 and 6:00 a.m., according to a statement signed by the company’s General Manager (operations and maintenance), Saidur Rahman.
During this period, all circuits connected to the Kuakata landing station via the SMW5 submarine cable will be unavailable.
Circuits via the Cox’s Bazar landing station’s SEA-ME-WE-4, or SMW4, submarine cable will still be functional, though.
Internet users may experience intermittent outages or slow connectivity while the maintenance is underway.
BSCPLC GM Rahman stated to bdnews24 “SMW5’s bandwidth supply may experience disruptions during the 4-hour maintenance, but the rest of the system’s connections will remain operational.”
The SMW5 is a 20,000 km long underwater cable that runs from Singapore to the Middle East via Points-of-Presence (POPs) and ends in France and Italy in Western Europe, linking 17 countries. Nineteen top telecom operators, including BSCPLC, are part of the consortium.
The SMW4 is an 18,800-kilometre cable that travels through Bangladesh, India, and Malaysia to connect Singapore to France. BSCPLC is one of 16 telecom operators in this consortium.
