With one of the most aggressive submarine cable builds in the world has ended, the first phase of the Trans-Pacific Express submarine cable system directly connecting China, the United States, South Korea and Taiwan is ready for service. The 18,000 kilometers (more than 11,000 miles) of fiber optic submarine cable will play an important role in the development of new international telecommunications in the Asia-Pacific region.
Originally announced as a terabit of 5.12 in December 2006, the cable system has increased capacity, and when fully deployed in the second phase is completed, TPE will be a 6 terabit submarine cable system.
The six international airlines telecommunications invest initially in the Trans-Pacific Express Submarine Cable Consortium – China Netcom, China Telecom, China Unicom, Chunghwa Telecom, Korea Telecom and Verizon Business – knew a monumental task ahead when they are set and ready to build to make the service within two years, the most advanced submarine cable in the Pacific Ocean.
Selection of Tyco Telecommunications as the main supplier of this cable system, all parties pushed aggressively to ensure that the original goal of turning the cable system in the third quarter of 2008 became reality. Earlier this year, AT & T Inc. and NTT Communications Corporation became the latest TPE consortium members. With the addition of NTT Communications, the TPE cable system to add a submarine cable link to Japan to the cable system TPE landing six locations – one in Japan, two in mainland China, and each in Taiwan, Korea South and the United States.
The TPE cable has been designed to provide greater capacity and higher speeds to meet the dramatic increase in demand for IP, data and voice communications in the Asia-Pacific.
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