Pirelli Supplies Undersea Cable linking Kuwait and Iran

Pirelli was awarded a contract for supplying submarine and land fiber optic cables as well as terminal transmission equipment for a network linking Kuwait City and Ganeveh in Iran. The network will use Pirelli cables with G654 fibers and initially operate at 2.5 Gbps. It will be DWDM upgradeable to 4 channels of 10 Gbps. The link will be complete by Q2 2004. Additional branches are also planned for Failakah (Kuwait) and the Kharg (Iran) islands and to an Iranian offshore oil platform. The cable system will be owned by the Ministry of Communications of Kuwait and the Telecommunications Company of Iran. The project is the first for Pirelli in the region.
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