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3: The Landing Point

9. MELAKA (MLK) Other links connecting through this
submarine cable landing station are
Submarine Cable Station. Batam-Dumai-Melaka (BDM) , South

East Asia-Middle East-Western
Last but not least Melaka Submarine Europe4 (SMW4) and South East Asia-
Middle East-Western Europe 5 (SMW5)
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Cable Station are the 9 cable station in links.
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Malaysia and the 4 International cable
landing station that has been designed to
provide high capacity network for voice
and data traffic between Malaysia and Connections
Indonesia.

Melaka was chosen as the site for the BDM
latest cable station due to its geographical Batam-Dumai-Melaka
location. It is the closest point to Dumai in
Sumatra, Indonesia, for the DMCS project
and closer to Kuala Lumpur compared
with existing cable stations located at
Cherating, Mersing and Kuala
Muda. Construction of the cable system
marked major business cooperation
between Telekom and PT Telkom of
Indonesia.

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Inaugurated on 17 February 2005, this DMCS
RM14mil cable station is located at
Pengkalan Balak and ready for the 150km Dumai- Melaka Cable System
system spans across the Straits of
Malacca, connecting Dumai and Malacca
for Dumai-Melaka Cable System (DMCS),
which carry a maximum capacity of 320
gigabits per second, equivalent to 3.871
million simultaneous phone calls between
Malaysia and Indonesia.

SMW4

South East Asia-Middle East-Western
Europe4

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