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TWA-1

submarine communications cable system

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2024
Entity authorityQ7672503 ↗
Source-derived summary

TW1 is a 1,300 km submarine telecommunications cable linking the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Pakistan. It is owned and operated by Pakistani Tier-1 provider, Transworld Associates.

The cable uses DWDM technology with two fiber pairs and has a design capacity of 1.28 Tbit/s. In 2016, Transworld contracted Huawei Marine (HMN) to add 3x additional 100 Gbit/s wavelengths to the TW1 cable system.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “TWA-1” is submarine communications cable system. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through TWA-1, submarine and communications, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, TWA-1, submarine and communications is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7672503. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “TWA-1” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.