Bay of Bengal Gateway

The Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) is a submarine communications cable providing a direct trunk connection between Barka (Sultanate of Oman) and Penang (Malaysia) with four branches to Fujairah (UAE), Mumbai (India), Colombo (Sri Lanka) and Chennai (India). The project was carried out by a consortium that includes Vodafone, Omantel, Etisalat, AT&T, China Telecom, Telstra, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Dialog and Telekom Malaysia. Construction was started in May 2013 and was completed by the end of 2014. From Penang the system is connected via a terrestrial connection to Singapore. The length of the submarine Cable system is 5934 km from Barka to Penang, with a 216 km branch to Fujairah, 426 km branch to Mumbai, 142 km branch to Colombo and a 1322 km branch to Chennai, totalling a total length of 8040 km.

The BBG Cable system creates a high-speed bridge between Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, and the Far East, with Singapore being a major cable hub with connection into the Far East and Barka in Oman with submarine and terrestrial connections to Europe, Africa and the GCC.

Landing points
It has the following landing points:
 * 1) Barka (Sultanate of Oman)
 * 2) Penang (Malaysia)
 * 3) Fujairah (UAE)
 * 4) Mumbai (India)
 * 5) Mount Lavinia (Sri Lanka)
 * 6) Chennai (India)

From Penang the system is connected via a terrestrial connection to Singapore.

Countries linked

 * Sultanate of Oman
 * United Arab Emirates
 * India
 * Sri Lanka
 * Malaysia
 * Singapore