three Vietnamese companies joined to connect cable under sea to the US.
The Asia-America Gateway (AAG) project will cost an estimated US$560 million.
The cable system will run from Malaysia to the US via Hong Kong, the Philippines, Guam and Hawaii. The cable will also run through parts of Singapore, Thailand, Brunei and Vietnam.
The Vietnamese firms include the Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), Viettel, and Saigon Postal (SPT). VNPT will contribute the largest funding of the Vietnamese firms, $40 million, as a founding member.
The project’s other companies are from Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, the US, and Hong Kong.
The system is scheduled to begin operations in November 2008 after 19 months’ construction.
It will provide direct access and diverse routing between South East Asia and the USA and will have geographical advantages over the traditional trans-Pacific routes (via the North Pacific).
The new route will avoid some of the areas most prone to seismic activity, a serious hazard for undersea cables.
The cable system will span 20,000km and use the latest Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technologies. The cable’s 1.92 terrabits per second capacity is six times more than the current international optical cable capacity of Vietnam.
The proposed cable system is designed to provide a high level inter-connectivity with high bandwidth systems. So, its capacity can be extended to other locations in northeast Asia, and southeast Asia, India, Australia, Africa and Europe.
The cable system will run from Malaysia to the US via Hong Kong, the Philippines, Guam and Hawaii. The cable will also run through parts of Singapore, Thailand, Brunei and Vietnam.
The Vietnamese firms include the Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), Viettel, and Saigon Postal (SPT). VNPT will contribute the largest funding of the Vietnamese firms, $40 million, as a founding member.
The project’s other companies are from Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, the US, and Hong Kong.
The system is scheduled to begin operations in November 2008 after 19 months’ construction.
It will provide direct access and diverse routing between South East Asia and the USA and will have geographical advantages over the traditional trans-Pacific routes (via the North Pacific).
The new route will avoid some of the areas most prone to seismic activity, a serious hazard for undersea cables.
The cable system will span 20,000km and use the latest Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technologies. The cable’s 1.92 terrabits per second capacity is six times more than the current international optical cable capacity of Vietnam.
The proposed cable system is designed to provide a high level inter-connectivity with high bandwidth systems. So, its capacity can be extended to other locations in northeast Asia, and southeast Asia, India, Australia, Africa and Europe.
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