Cable Name: | BBG |
Cable Logo: | Logo of Bay of Bengal Gateway cable.png |
Cable Type: | Fibre-optic |
State: | Operational |
Design Capacity: | 55 Tbit/s (3 fibre pairs) |
Lit Capacity: | 10 Tbit/s |
Area Served: | Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia |
Owner: | Consortium |
The Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) is a submarine communications cable providing a direct trunk connection between Barka (Sultanate of Oman) and Penang (Malaysia) with four branches to Fujairah (UAE), Mumbai (India), Colombo (Sri Lanka) and Chennai (India). The project was carried out by a consortium that includes Vodafone, Omantel, Etisalat, AT&T, China Telecom, Telstra, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Dialog and Telekom Malaysia. Construction was started in May 2013 and was completed by the end of 2014. From Penang the system is connected via a terrestrial connection to Singapore. The length of the submarine Cable system is from Barka to Penang, with a branch to Fujairah, branch to Mumbai, branch to Colombo and a branch to Chennai, totalling a total length of .
The BBG Cable system creates a high-speed bridge between Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, and the Far East, with Singapore being a major cable hub with connection into the Far East and Barka in Oman with submarine and terrestrial connections to Europe, Africa and the GCC.
It has the following landing points:
From Penang the system is connected via a terrestrial connection to Singapore.