The SEA-ME-WE 4 cable system was developed by a consortium of
16 telecommunications companies which agreed to construct the project on 27
March 2004. Construction of the system was carried out by Alcatel Submarine
Networks (now Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks, a division of Alcatel-Lucent)
and Fujitsu. The eighteen month construction project was completed on 13
December 2005 with a cost estimate of US$500 million. Segment 1 construction,
running 8,000 kilometres from Singapore to India, was done by Fujitsu, which
also provided the submarine repeater equipment for Segment 4.
