The Special Communications Organization (SCO) has drawn nearer Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) for getting Long Distance International (LDI) administration permit as fundamental for operation on the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), it is learnt.
SCO had set up International Gateway Exchange (IGWE) through Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) financing in 2005.
SCO is arguing that LDI permit be conceded to it in perspective of its part/operation on CPEC. Case in such manner satisfying all pre-imperatives is under thought with PTA.
At present, SCO LDI permit is limited to Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and it isn't operable in different locales of Pakistan, because of which it can't abuse full business potential.
Whenever done, this back-pull fiber optic link will give Pakistan an immediate telecom access to China, Central Asian States and from that point to Europe and to and from the United States.
The optic fiber will be laid in the middle of Rawalpindi and Khunjrab, covering a separation of 820 Kilometers.
Pakistan is as of now associated with the world through undersea fiber optic links, while another are being manufactured and will be operational in the following couple of years.
Pakistan’s current international links and bandwidth capacity include:
- TW1 with design capacity of 1.28Tbps
- Sea-Me-We-3 with 480 Gbps with two fibre pairs
- Sea-Me-We-4 with design capacity of 1.28Tbps
- I-ME-WE with Design Capacity of 3.86Tbps
- AAE-1 with design capacity of 40Tbps
- Sea-Me-We-5 with design capacity of 24Tbps
- Silk Road Gateway-1 (With landing points in Karachi and Gwadar)
- Pakistan-China Fiber Optic Back-Haul
