Maintenance work will be performed on the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 5 (SEA-ME-WE 5) submarine cable installed in Kuakata, said Bangladesh Submarine Cables PLC (BSCPLC) in a press release.

In the meantime, the first submarine cable, SEA-ME-WE 4, will continue providing uninterrupted services.

Of the two submarine cables operated by BSCPLC, SEA-ME-WE 5 carries about 1,700 gigabyte-per-second (Gbps) internet, while the first submarine cable carries a much smaller amount of nearly 800 Gbps bandwidth.

The rest of the country’s 5,200 Gbps of ground-based bandwidth is imported from India.