i2i (Cable Network)

i2i stands for India to International. It is the first private cable to directly link India and Singapore. i2i was planned as a cable network spanning 10,800 km which would approximately be cost USD 650 mn. Phase 1 of i2i cable development covered a linear link between Chennai - Tuas and a terrestrial link between Chennai and Mumbai. What about Phase 2 or beyond ? This should include a submarine cable link between Mumbai and Singapore. Does anybody know?

• Contractors/Suppliers :ASN
• Repeatered system, 64
• Capacity 8 FP; 8.4 Tbps; 105 Lambdas; 10 Gbps; initial 160 Gbps
• Length 3,200 km
• Landing Points : Chennai (Madras) India, Tuas Singapore
• Owners: Bharti, SingTel
• CAPEX USD 250 mn
• RFS / Commercial Traffic: May 2002
• Contract Award: October 2000
• Construction : late 2000 - April 2002
• Wholesale capacity is available in STM-1, -4, -16, and -64 levels; 10-Gbit/sec wavelengths; and dark fiber, which can support 40-960 Gbits/sec.
  
• It was a plan to branch to Medan ?? (see below - at that time, Indosat would not let this happened :-D )
  
• A terrestrial link between Chennai and Mumbai (2,000 km - inlcudes in Phase-1 / USD 250 mn??)

i2icn - Phase 1 (Source/Courtesy ASN)

Another version (source Apman):

i2icn (Source Apman)

• Length : 3,200 km
• Capacity : 8,400 Gbps ; (8 fp x 105 wl @ 10 Gbps)
• RFS : 2001