CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Facebook is planning two undersea cables to connect Singapore, Indonesia and North America in a bid to boost internet connection capacity between the regions.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sify Technologies owns cable landing station in Mumbai for MENA and GBI submarine cable systems. BSNL owns its first international submarine cable connecting India and Sri Lanka (BLCS) and its cable landing station in Tuticorin.

Detailed explanation-3: -India-Europe-Xpress (IEX) and India-Asia-Xpress (IAX) - the world’s largest submarine cable system - are expected to be ready between 2023 and 2024.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tata Communications Limited (TCL) owned Tata Indicom Cable (TIC), Singapore’s first fully Indian-owned, undersea fiber-optic cable. The TIC cable is 100 percent owned, operated and maintained by TCL. The 3, 175 km cable lands in Chennai in India and in Changi in Singapore.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Equiano and 2Africa cables will not only carry social media and internet searches (and the ads that help monetize them) but also entire countries’ health, governance, and security data.