No traffic disruption during submarine cable repair this month
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
FE Report
BSCCL Monday ruled out any possibility of traffic disruption in the country during the submarine cable repair, scheduled to start after Mid-October.
"The repair work will not cause any traffic disruption in Bangladesh, as we have taken necessary measures to ensure backup traffic for voice and internet during the replacement of SMW-4 submarine cable," Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL) managing director Monwar Hossain told reporters at a press conference.
BSCCL organised the event at the conference room of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) to protest the news of some dailies that Bangladesh might lose global connectivity during the replacement work. He directly refused those news items.
He said the submarine cable consortium on September 22 informed BSCCL that two repeaters around the Thailand submarine landing station Satun need to be replaced, and all the stations of segment-1 of SMW-4 were supposed to be shut down for three to four hours due to power reconfiguration from 10:00pm on October 1.
Landing stations of India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore are under the segment-1.
"We then requested the consortium to start power reconfiguration from 1:00am Bangladesh time when the traffic pressure is very low, and they accepted it," the BSCCL MD said.
However, the consortium has postponed the proposed repair activities, following a request of TATA Communications Ltd on account of the ongoing 19th Commonwealth Games.
The BSCCL official said Bangladesh would receive limited connectivity during the power configuration, as the traffic will be maintained through VSATs and satellites.
"During the 10-daylong replacement work, Bangladesh will be disconnected from the east-bound circuits (southeast Asia), but not from the rest of the world, as its west-bound traffic (from India to America via Europe) is fully active," Mr Hossain said.
"We've managed to connect with the i2i cable of India's Bharti Airtel, which directly links Chennai with Singapore. The cable will act as an alternative route to connect with the east-bound circuits during the replacement."
BTCL managing director Absar Alam was also present at the event.
BSCCL Monday ruled out any possibility of traffic disruption in the country during the submarine cable repair, scheduled to start after Mid-October.
"The repair work will not cause any traffic disruption in Bangladesh, as we have taken necessary measures to ensure backup traffic for voice and internet during the replacement of SMW-4 submarine cable," Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL) managing director Monwar Hossain told reporters at a press conference.
BSCCL organised the event at the conference room of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) to protest the news of some dailies that Bangladesh might lose global connectivity during the replacement work. He directly refused those news items.
He said the submarine cable consortium on September 22 informed BSCCL that two repeaters around the Thailand submarine landing station Satun need to be replaced, and all the stations of segment-1 of SMW-4 were supposed to be shut down for three to four hours due to power reconfiguration from 10:00pm on October 1.
Landing stations of India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore are under the segment-1.
"We then requested the consortium to start power reconfiguration from 1:00am Bangladesh time when the traffic pressure is very low, and they accepted it," the BSCCL MD said.
However, the consortium has postponed the proposed repair activities, following a request of TATA Communications Ltd on account of the ongoing 19th Commonwealth Games.
The BSCCL official said Bangladesh would receive limited connectivity during the power configuration, as the traffic will be maintained through VSATs and satellites.
"During the 10-daylong replacement work, Bangladesh will be disconnected from the east-bound circuits (southeast Asia), but not from the rest of the world, as its west-bound traffic (from India to America via Europe) is fully active," Mr Hossain said.
"We've managed to connect with the i2i cable of India's Bharti Airtel, which directly links Chennai with Singapore. The cable will act as an alternative route to connect with the east-bound circuits during the replacement."
BTCL managing director Absar Alam was also present at the event.