Optic fibre cable connecting Pakistan, China to be inaugurated

[ghazi52]

Optic fibre cable connecting Pakistan, China to be inaugurated today

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China will inaugurate on Friday an optic fibre cable that has been laid to provide direct link between Pakistan, the Middle Asia and East Asia.

Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Prime Minister Nasirul Mulk, Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing, Special Communications Organisation (SCO) director general and Huawei Middle East Region President Charles Yang will be present at the inauguration ceremony that will be held in Islamabad.

The cable connects Rawalpindi with Khunjerab on the Pakistan-China border at an altitude of 4,700 meters, the highest fibre cable project in the world. Later, the cable will be extended to Gwadar, which will fully connect Pakistan and China.

It is the first project under the early harvest programme of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the only information and communication technology (ICT) project under CPEC.

Total cost was estimated at $44 million and Exim Bank of China provided 85% of loan at a concessionary rate.

The project is owned by SCO and its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor was Huawei.

Construction work on the project started in March 2016 and ended in June 2018. The cable covers an area of 820 km. There are 26 microwave transmission nodes from Rawalpindi to Karimabad and 171 km of aerial fibre cable from Karimabad to Khunjerab as a back-up.

After two years of hard work by SCO and Huawei, the project stands complete and ready for commercial use.

The optic fibre cable will provide direct connection between Pakistan, the Middle Asia and East Asia and minimise the risk of disruption to international traffic. It will also provide multiple international links with the new Gwadar landing station in order to reduce discontinuity issues.

The project will help improve the telecom and ICT industry of Pakistan, promote tourism and create trading opportunities for northern areas of the country. It will also provide the ICT infrastructure for 3G/4G services in the northern areas and enhance communication security with an alternative fibre route.

 

[My-Analogous]

Optic fibre cable connecting Pakistan, China to be inaugurated today

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China will inaugurate on Friday an optic fibre cable that has been laid to provide direct link between Pakistan, the Middle Asia and East Asia.

Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Prime Minister Nasirul Mulk, Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing, Special Communications Organisation (SCO) director general and Huawei Middle East Region President Charles Yang will be present at the inauguration ceremony that will be held in Islamabad.

The cable connects Rawalpindi with Khunjerab on the Pakistan-China border at an altitude of 4,700 meters, the highest fibre cable project in the world. Later, the cable will be extended to Gwadar, which will fully connect Pakistan and China.

It is the first project under the early harvest programme of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the only information and communication technology (ICT) project under CPEC.

Total cost was estimated at $44 million and Exim Bank of China provided 85% of loan at a concessionary rate.

The project is owned by SCO and its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor was Huawei.

Construction work on the project started in March 2016 and ended in June 2018. The cable covers an area of 820 km. There are 26 microwave transmission nodes from Rawalpindi to Karimabad and 171 km of aerial fibre cable from Karimabad to Khunjerab as a back-up.

After two years of hard work by SCO and Huawei, the project stands complete and ready for commercial use.

The optic fibre cable will provide direct connection between Pakistan, the Middle Asia and East Asia and minimise the risk of disruption to international traffic. It will also provide multiple international links with the new Gwadar landing station in order to reduce discontinuity issues.

The project will help improve the telecom and ICT industry of Pakistan, promote tourism and create trading opportunities for northern areas of the country. It will also provide the ICT infrastructure for 3G/4G services in the northern areas and enhance communication security with an alternative fibre route.

Good news.

 

[Maea]

Good

 

[Daghalodi]

Amazing!! Congratulations

 

[Dalit]

China the real hope amidst chaos, rape and pussygrabbing.

Well done Pakistan China.

 

[Major Sam]

What are the specifications? Bandwidth? etc

 

[ghazi52]

First Land based 820 Kilometres long Fibre Optic Cable Inaugurated from #Khunjrab to #Rawalpindi. Fibre Optic Cable to boost ICT and communications sector in Pakistan.

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[khansaheeb]

CPEC achievement
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THE promised overhaul of Pakistan’s communications framework that was a part of the Long Term Plan for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has seen a major phase reach completion — an achievement that is to be lauded for the benefits it brings to ordinary citizens and the strategic advantages it provides to both countries. The Pak-China Optical Fibre Cable project was inaugurated on Friday, having been completed over a period of two years. The project’s main features are the 820km underground Optical Fibre Cable from Rawalpindi to Khunjerab and the 172km aerial OFC link from Karimabad to Khunjerab. As reported, a communication link has been established with the Chinese side on the border and has been successfully tested for end-to-end connectivity.

Being the first land-based communication link between Pakistan and China, it should immediately ensure secure communication with regard to CPEC-specific projects and other sensitive information exchanges that would no longer necessarily be routed through Europe, the United States or India. As highlighted in previous reports, the existing network by which Pakistan connects to the world has been developed by a consortium that includes Indian companies as partners or shareholders — a security risk that has been voiced by officials in the past. Eventually, the plan will also provide security in the form of a backup route for Pakistan’s internet traffic, which is currently entirely dependent on undersea cables. Those living in the long-ignored regions of Gilgit-Baltistan and Balochistan will finally have meaningful access to high-speed internet, which is a big step up from the poor to non-existent set-up of the past. Eventually, connectivity will ensure economic growth in those areas, especially in information and communication technologies and the telecom sector. Overall, given proper consideration and investment by the government, the impact of this project could be wide-ranging — from faster, cheaper internet to e-governance and more. It is hoped that this step will quickly be followed up with further development of the digital corridor highlighted in the LTP, which would position Pakistan as a cost-effective communication highway for China and the landlocked Central Asian states that would look to connect to the world through Gwadar. It is also hoped that in the long term, connectivity through China will not necessitate the imposition on Pakistani citizens the many censorship mechanisms currently set up by China for their own state.

Published in Dawn, July 16th, 2018

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[ghazi52]

CPEC Update :

New Optical fibre cable has been operationalised from Khunjrab to Islamabad.

In the next phase will be laid from Islamabad to Karachi & Islamabad to Gwadar as part of
digital highway plan, foundation for digital/IT revolution-project are being processed in conjunction with China.

 

[Pakistan Space Agency]

Mubarrak to all Pakistanis.

 

[Rafi]

Excellent news.

 

[appliedfor]

Good news, so we have one more backup plan connectivity

 

[ghazi52]

The 12th of July, 2020 was a memorable day, as the new $44 million, 820 km long optical fiber cable from Khunjerab (China) to Islamabad, was operationalized. The line will connect the Transit Europe-Asia Terrestrial Cable Network with #Pakistan, which currently transmits its telecom and internet traffic through four undersea fiber optic cables, with another three under-sea fiber optic cables under construction.

The go-ahead has also been given for Phase-II of Pak-China Optical Fiber Cable (OFC) project for laying 9600 km cable along the CPEC routes Islamabad-Karachi and Islamabad-#Gwadar. The project will take four years to complete at a cost of $279.219 million. China will provide 85 percent loan and Pakistan will finance 15 percent.

Fiber optic cables contain one or more optical fiber elements designed for transmitting light, individually coated with plastic layers within a protective tube. A fiber-optic network is a computer-to-computer, or computer-to-Internet network using fiber-optic cables. Computer information is converted into light pulses and is converted back into regular data upon reaching its destination.

While Coaxial cables require repeaters to send signals over long distances resulting in signal loss, fiber-optic cabling require very few repeaters and suffer little to no signal loss or loss of quality. Secondly, fiber-optic cables transmit information at much faster rate and carry more information (bandwidth). besides carrying regular computer data and audio and video signals.

Distinctive features of the Long Term Plan (LTP) for CPEC communications (2016-2030) include: (i) a new submarine landing station for internet traffic flow; (ii) it will not be routed through Europe, the United States or India; (iii) high volume internet penetration and speed, especially for Baluchistan and Gilgit-Baltistan; and (iv) a more cost-effective route for connectivity with Central Asian Republics.

One would generally associate fiber optical cabling for use in high-speed internet and computer networking only. In reality the aerospace and defense engineering sectors are its key market segments across the world, both on land and at sea, in the communications and I.T. fields, in fiber optic video and fiber optic broadband.

The rationale behind its many military-specific uses in shipboard, ship to shore, and deployable tactical communications and to outfit military ships, vehicles, and facilities, is its strength and high speed data transmission rate, security and stability.

In the commercial sphere it is increasingly used in unmanned systems, space launch vehicles, and satellites, and in the monitoring, control and reliability of civil infrastructure systems through use of automatic instruments, which rely on sensors incorporated in the structures.
For Pakistan fiber optic cabling is especially useful in the medical field because it is small in size, is able to withstand high temperatures and strong electromagnetic fields like MRIs and ionizing radiation, are nontoxic, chemically inert, and thus, an ideal material to use in and near the human body.

An improved broadband infrastructure means economic growth and job creation through enhanced access to the Internet. Specially in megacities like #Karachi, #Lahore, #Faisalabad, #Rawalpindi and #Peshawar, with their pollution, health, education, traffic and crime.

 

[ghazi52]

PM Imran Khan takes earth breaking of Phase 2 of 990 km Pak-China Fibre Optic along with three CPEC routes