The country's first submarine cable (SEA-ME-WW-4) will be closed for three days from midnight on Sunday for the renovation work. Due to bandwidth shortage, Internet connection may be slow or disturbed.
This information was given by the state-owned telecommunications service provider Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL) and Internet Service Provider (ISP) sources.
BSCCL officials said that on the first day of Monday, the internet traffic outage could be three hours for the first hour on the first day and the last day after replacing the reporter on the Singapore border. But the connection between the BTCL subscribers of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited (BTCL) will not be completely disconnected due to the option to continue internet service. That's why customers will not suffer much, but the speed may be slightly slower.
Demand for daily internet bandwidth in the country is 450 GBps (GB per second). The first submarine cable is available from 250 Gbps bandwidth. Imported 150-160 GBP bandwidths from India through the International Terrestrial Cable (ITC) company.
Bangladesh was first associated with the Submarine Cable (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) in 2005. After the launch of the next year, this will be the first to complete the submarine and complete the repair. The second submarine cable (SEA-ME-WE-5) was launched officially last month. This year, more than 1,500 gigabytes of bandwidth will be available through this cable.Landing station-file image of the first submarine cable in Cox's Bazar
The BSCCL authorities have planned to meet the deficit of three days due to imported bandwidth of the second submarine cable and ITC. The second submarine cable currently has 100 Gbps bandwidth capability. It will be 200 gbps soon, said the concerned people.
However, at that time bandwidth deficit is causing the internet service to crash in the sector concerned sector concerned Those three days shortage will be less than 50Gbps, the state-owned BScCL said. And Internet service providers demand that at least 150 GBps bandwidth deficit in the country.
In this regard, ISP Association of Bangladesh (ISPAB) president MA Hakim said that the first submarine cable closure for repair work has been reported from BSCCL. It may have limited negative impact on the internet connection of the country.
He said, "If we were asked to get 100 gbps bandwidth from the second submarine cable, in reality, now more than 20-30 gbps is not available." The three days of the internet can be complicated in the country, he said.
However, the level of anguish will depend on the capability of the second submarine cables, said ISPAB president.
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