Dumai-Melaka Cable System (cable system)

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Dumai-Melaka Cable System or DMCS is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking Indonesia and Malaysia across the Strait of Malacca

It has landing points in:

• Dumai, Riau Province, Indonesia
• Melaka, Melaka State, Malaysia

It has a design transmission capacity of 320 Gbit/s of which 20 Gbit/s were lit at inception, and a total cable length of 150 km. It was inaugurated on 17 February 2005.

[edit] Sources

• http://www.nec.co.jp/submarine/product/dmcs.pdf. Retrieved on [[15 February]], 2006.
• http://www.telekom.com.my/about_TM/newsroom/2004/040513.htm. Retrieved on [[15 February]], 2006.
• http://www.kompas.com/kompas-cetak/0502/17/telkom/1562785.htm. Retrieved on [[15 February]], 2006.