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The Mauritius–Rodrigues Submarine Cable (MARS) is the first optical fiber submarine communications cable linking Mauritius to Rodrigues.
Mauritius–Rodrigues Submarine Cable (MARS) | |
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Owners: Mauritius Telecom | |
Landing points
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Total length | 720 km |
Design capacity | 8 Tbit/s |
Currently lit capacity | 100 Gbit/s |
Date of first use | March 2019 |
Website | Official website |
It was commissioned in November 2017 by the Government of Mauritius. The project was awarded to Mauritius Telecom and executed by PCCW Global with Huawei Marine as the installer.[1] The MARS submarine cable has a design capacity of 8 Terabits per second and an initial lit capacity of 100 Gigabits per second.
The MARS cable is deployed with a no-burial laying methodology. It consists of two fibre pairs and six submarine repeaters using the dense wavelength division multiplexing transmission technology.
The laying of the submarine cable started on the 6 November 2018 at La Prairie, Mauritius and was connected to Rodrigues on the 17 November 2018. The cable is expected to be ready for service in March 2019.[needs update]
Upon activation, the MARS cable would produce a 500-fold increase in bandwidth to Rodrigues, which has until now only been connected to the outside world through satellites.
The MARS cable has landing points[2] at:
References
editExternal links
edit- Mauritius And Rodrigues Submarine (MARS) Cable Project Cable Landing in Rodrigues
- MARS on Submarine Cable Map