Antara News, Tuesday, November 17, 2009 21:17 WIB
PT Indosat. (ANTARA/Ardika)Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Telecommunication operator PT Indosat Tbk will spread the sea cable communication system or SKKL to connect Jakarta, Pontianak, Batam and Singapore which will be used for the internet-based protocol (IP) or non IP services.
PT Indosat president director Harry Sasongko after inaugurating two new telecommunication backbones here Tuesday, said that the marine cable system is 1,300 km long.
"With this additional marine cable systems, Indosat will have additional bandwidth capacity at the early stage of 80 Gbps which will be used for both IP-based services (Internet Protocol) and the non-IP," he said.
The SKKL installed by Indosat in cooperation with NEC has a four landing points on the islands of Tanjung Pakis (Karawang, West Java), Sungai Kakap (Pontianak, West Kalimantan), Tanjung Bemban (Batam), and Changi (Singapore).
"The fiber-optic network will be able to anticipate the possibility of the very large demand until the Gbps (Giga bits per second)," he said.
In addition, the network is expected to serve as a redundant or back up for the existing international network.
"All cable systems FO or fiber optic Indosat has used ring system or redundant, so if there is a break in the cable, it will be immediately backed up by another network," he said.
Meanwhile, the Indonesian ambassador to Singapore, Ali Wardana said, at least 158 thousand Indonesian people live in Singapore so that the existence of the SKKL has a potential to increase relations between the two countries.
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