(Telecompaper) Ooredoo Oman has concluded the landing of the Southeast-Middle East-Western Europe 5 (SEA-ME-WE 5) submarine cable system. Installed at its base station in Qalhat, in the Sharqiyah South governorate, the 20,000km cable is being developed as a multi-regional data superhighway that will substantially improve data transmission across affected regions. The SEA-ME-WE 5 submarine cable has been designed with the latest upgradable 100Gbps technology, enabling an initial system capacity of 24Tbps per second on three fibre pairs. The system will link East Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.