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Pakistan's sole under sea optical fiber fibre link in 2005, called Southeast Asia, Middle East and Western Europe-3 (SEAMEWE-3), stopped working for about 12 days due to a fault from 27th June to the 8th of July 2005. This disruption halted the global connectivity of almost 10 million internet users in the country. The details can be found here.
Recently Pakistan has connected to SEMEW4 SEMEWE4 which provides Pakistan with a redundant link in case the outage occurs again. Here is the complete story http://www.pkblogs.com/pakistan/2006/01/smw4-mitigates-total-blackouts.html Here is a case study of Internet connectivity of NUST Institute of Information Technology (NIIT) that was done in 2004 Internet performance for NIIT, Pakistan Jan - Feb 2004
HEC is planning for the PERN-2 project. Tender for the deployment has been won by Almoayed Group in January 2007 for the deployment of 10Gbps Metro Ring for interconnecting universities. Initially universities will be connected with 1Gbps ethernet and will be replaced as soon the as the CPE (Customer Presence Equipment) routers with 10Gbps will be available to HEC.Mobilink has almost completed its backbone and has a submarine fiber fibre link to its sister company TWA which will be the next national media provider after PTCL. This will be the a third undersea fibre cable project for Pakistan (SEAMEW3 and 4 are the first two and are operated by PTCL). In February 2007 Telekom Malaysia announced that the company is set to complete its US$100 million countrywide fiber-optic-backbone project in Pakistan - the largest fiber-optic network in the country - by October 2007. The backbone will link more than 75 major towns and cities in Pakistan. The project is with Multinet, a Pakistan ISP that is now a subsidiary of Telekom Malaysia. A fourth company, Wateen is laying out a fiber backbone at a cost of $100M. It appears that all of this investment will provide more options for Pakistani network access. In what is believed to be the largest WiMAX network of its kind, Motorola has been selected as primary supplier to Pakistan's Wateen Telecom, part of Warid Telecom International, to plan, design and deploy a nationwide WiMAX network. It will be launched in March 2007
Bangladesh
SEMEW4 has greatly affected the internet connectivity of Bangladesh Before this Bangladesh relied on VSAT for Internet connectivity.
Most of the sites now have moved to fiber but some of them are still on satellite. We used our HostSearcher tool which searches for sites on Google. Out of 20 sites that we located in Bangladesh 3 had min RTT > 500 ms indicating that they are on satellite. Bangladesh has now got 2 STM-1 links with MCI and Singtel.
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