Ten regional telecommunications firms have signed an MOU to plan the implementation of a high capacity fiber-optic submarine cable network in the Asia-Pacific region, the Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN-2).
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The signatories of the MOU, announced yesterday in Kunming, included China Telecom, Chunghwa Telecom, Cable & Wireless HKT, Japan Telecom, Korea Telecom, KDD Corp., NTT Worldwide Network, Singapore Telecom, Telekom Malaysia and Telstra Corp. Ltd.
The APCN-2 cable will be ready in 2002 and will connect seven areas including Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Malaysia and Singapore, with additional landing points added later.
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"This will be the second of two new state-of-the-art submarine cable systems that will further demonstrate Cable & Wireless HKT's commitment of building Hong Kong as the regional hub for Internet and e-commerce," said Alistair Grieve, deputy chief executive of Cable & Wireless HKT.
"Later this year we will begin enjoying the benefits of the world's longest submarine cable, the 38,000km SEA-ME-WE 3 cable network linking Hong Kong with South East Asia and the Middle East as well as Europe."
To provide upgradable transmission facilities, APCN-2 will use 640 Gbits/s per fiber-optic pair and Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology. In addition, the APCN-2 will have a 'self-healing ring configuration' with four fiber-optic pairs designed to equip it with greater network resilience and route diversity.
Cable & Wireless recently renamed Hongkong Telecom in English as Cable & Wireless HKT to have a wider appeal in the region.
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