New Indonesian Cable : XL's or Moratel's ?

I've just "incidentally" found a hint for a new cable as I was delivered to a webpage from Moratel's official Mr. Par. It could answer some rumors I've mentioned previously. :-D Somebody can confirm this ?

"Recently, in progress to deploy round 400km subarine cable, linking Batam-Island to Sumatra Island"

Batam to X Cable System -- Guess where ? :-D

SKKL-JS (2)

Still complementing my old post :-D

• Capacity : 40 Gbps (1 FP x 16 Lambdas @ 2.5 Gbps) - after upgrade ??
• RFS : 1997 ?? (not 1996 ??)
  

Indosat's Jakarta - Surabaya Optical Cable (SKKL-JS)

BSCS (2)

BSCS is officially confirmed! Below are some statements quoted from bisnis.com (early February ??). However, it doesn't contain so much information except that Telkom really has this project! Whether some NEC people could give more infos than this ?! :-D I'm sorry to say it here, but "actual news" on NEC Submarine Website aren't updated since July 2008 (more than six months!) :-D

"Selain itu, Telkom juga sedang menyelesaikan Asian America Gateway yang menghubungkan akses jaringan infrastruktur ke Singapura yang selanjutnya terhubung hingga Amerika Serikat.

Akses ke Singapura dengan menambah kabel bawah laut dari Batam yang disebut Batam Singapore Cabel System (BSCS) yang kapasitasnya ditingkatkan berkisar satu hingga dua terrabite (1 terra=1000 giga). Jika kedua proyek itu selesai diharapkan pengguna Internet tidak terkendala soal kapasitas bandwith."

BSCS Route (Singapore Strait) - Somebody could translate this to map ? :-D

Jakasusi (2)

I've mentioned Jakasusi cable here several times ago.

• Shore ends laying and burial up to 1.2 m : Banyu Urip (12.7 km), Takesung B1 (9.7 km), Takesung B2 (10.7 km), Aeng Batu Batu (?)
• Length : 1.100 km (?)
  
• Capacity : initial equipage 20 Gbps (2 FP x 1 Lambda@10Gbps); design 12 Lambdas/FP (or 2FP?)
  

JDCS (Jember Denpasar Cable System)

This is just additional information for this issue.

• JDCS is a domestic submarine cable system owned by PT. Telkom connecting Java (Jember) and Bali (Denpasar)
• JDCS is an extension of Telkom's Java Backbone Network
• Contractors : ZTE (+Perkonsuma, + Nusa Sakti Waskita, + GPT ... )
  
• Contract : Dec 2006
• System : DWDM/SDH
  

• RFS : April 2008 ?
  
• Capacity : ??
• Map ??
  

SJJK (2)

Any new development of this new Excelcomindo's submarine cable ? It rumors that the project has already started in December last year (2008) ... Anybody could confirm this ?


XL is currently the third largest operator, which owns the third largest long distance transmission infrastructure (mainly optical transmission cable). I've mentioned about this in several posts previously. As a complement to those, recently some media quoted XL press release regarding their infrastructure in Bangka Belitung (Babel):

• Jakarta (Pademangan) - Mentigi (Belitung) --> 350 km
• Belitung - Bangka --> 310 km
  
• Bangka - Jambi --> 376 km
  
• Jambi - Batam --> 296 km

*Update* Source Bisnis.com 25/11/2008 | thanks to Meneer

• CAPEX : USD 31 mn
• Link Jawa-Sumatera, East Java (Surabaya) - Kalimantan (Banjarmasin)
  
• Length : 550 km
• 4 tender participants; 6 invited; awarded to ASN
• Capacity : 12 FP, 10 Tbps design
  

• "Saat ini rute cincin kabel optik XL untuk Jawa-Sumatra di antaranya berada di titik-titik Ancol-Sungai Liat (Bangka Belitung) dan Anyer-Kalianda (Lampung)"

However, I don't find any official project release from international sources ??!