Vodafone Qatar and GBI sign cable deal

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vodafone Qatar and Gulf Bridge International signed a deal to provide a landing station the latter’s submarine cable in the Gulf state.

GBI cable system is scheduled to launch in 2011 and designed to operate for up to 25 years. It will connect telecommunication operators and other communications firms in the region via a core ring, which can re-route traffic thereby increasing resilience.

All the countries of the Gulf region will be connected by the GBI cable system and it will also provide onward connectivity to Europe and Asia. The cable system will have a design capacity of up to 5 Tbps on certain cable sections.

The system will also have capability to meet the rapid growth in demand that has been forecast for traffic originating and terminating in the Gulf.