South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 5 (SEA-ME-WE 5) is an optical fibre submarine communications cable system that carries telecommunications between Singapore and France.

[9] The design capacity was upgraded from 24 Tbit/s to 36.6 Tbit/s in September 2019 using Ciena's GeoMesh Extreme 300G technology.

This caused significant traffic disruptions lasting several hours to many countries across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

As a result, connectivity was lost between Kuakata, Bangladesh and the final landing point in Tuas, Singapore.

[28] The cable was reported to have been repaired on June 28,[29] following lengthy delays related to Indonesia's preferential cabotage policy and administrative procedures.