The repair work on the cable will continue for four hours from 2am, Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Ltd said citing the SU-ME-WE-5 Consortium’s maintenance schedule. All the circuits at Kuakata Landing Station will be off during the repair, the BSCCL said in a notice on Sunday. The circuits of the first submarine cable and International Terrestrial Cable or ITC operators will be working at the time, but the users may face slow connection, the BSCCL said. Almost half the 1,700 Gbps bandwidth in use in Bangladesh comes through the second submarine cable, according to internet service providers. Bangladesh got connected to the first submarine cable in 2005 and to the second in 2017 through the landing station at Kolapara in Patuakhali.

Source: bd News24 January 24, 2021 15:22 UTC