NTT Communications Launches High-Capacity Optical Submarine Cable Network Serving Asia-Pacific Region
October 31 2016 - 1:00AM
Business Wire
NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and
international communications business within the NTT (NYSE:NTT)
Group, announced today that it has launched the Asia Pacific
Gateway (APG), a high-bandwidth optical submarine cable network
connecting regions and countries in the Asia. NTT Com has
implemented the new service in partnership with major
telecommunication carriers in each country.
The APG will increase data transmission capacity in the Asian
region, improve connectivity between various regions and countries
and improve redundancy by means of diverse routing.
With a total length of 10,400 km, the APG network leverages
100Gbps optical transmission capabilities and digital coherent
technology to deliver a capacity of more than 54 Tbps, the highest
of any network in Asia. The cable routing avoids areas prone to
earthquakes and typhoons, and has connectivity points in Mainland
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore,
Thailand and Vietnam. See Attachment 1 for more information.
NTT Com has established two diverse landing points, one in the
East and the other in the West of Japan for the APG and Pacific
Crossing-1 (PC-1) submarine cable which connects between Japan and
the U.S. having diverse route such as north and south routes. The
company has also implemented diverse landing points in Hong Kong
and Singapore for the APG and for the Asia Submarine-Cable Express
(ASE), which was launched in August 2012. NTT Com thereby operates
totally diverse cable routes between the US West Coast and key
economic hubs in Asia regions, offering even greater reliability
and redundancy in its global network. See Attachment 2 for more
information.
About NTT Communications Corporation
NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, security
and cloud services to optimize the information and communications
technology (ICT) environments of enterprises. These offerings are
backed by the company’s worldwide infrastructure, including the
leading global tier-1 IP network, the Arcstar Universal One™ VPN
network reaching 196 countries/regions, and over 140 secure data
centers worldwide. NTT Communications’ solutions leverage the
global resources of NTT Group companies including Dimension Data,
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