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08/03/2010 - Issue 42
Syria to share bandwidth capacity with neighbors
According to Nazem Bahsas, General Director of Syria Telecom, Syria will be exchanging internet capacities with Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, setting a regional broadband connection established through a land cable, in which Syria linked with Turkey earlier this year, while the link with Jordan is near completion.
The network will have a bandwidth capacity of 200 Gigabits; with Saudi Arabia’s share at 50%, Turkey’s at 30%, and Syria and Jordan each at 10%; with prospects for Iran and Iraq joining the network in the future.
"The connection is very efficient for the countries involved because a land cable is cheaper to establish, less prone to breakdowns, and easier to repair than submarine cables," Bahsas said.
Syria has been tending to its Information Technology sector lately, and more recently, it has signed a Construction and Maintenance Agreement with five of the region's leading operators to build a regional Cable Network; a multi-terabit cable system stretching from the United Arab Emirates through Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria into Europe, to provide robust bandwidth connectivity for its growing broadband community.
