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Total length
  
3,200 km

Technology
  
DWDM

Design capacity
  
8.4 Tbit/s

Date of first use
  
2002

i2i is a submarine telecommunications cable connecting India to Singapore. This cable is owned by Bharti Airtel Limited of India. Its landing points are:

  • Chennai, India
  • Tuas, Singapore
  • The Initial First Stage of the Network from Singapore to Chennai (3,200 km) with a terrestrial link between Chennai and Mumbai (2,000 km) was completed in April 2002.

    The Cable consists of 8 fibre pairs using DWDM Multiplexing with full capacity of 8.4 Tbit/s when all 105 wavelengths are used. As of April 2002 its lit capacity was 160GB/s and connects with C2C Cable network, SEA-ME-WE 3 and Asia Pacific Cable Network.

    Singtel divested its interest in 2007

    References

    I2i Wikipedia