A consortium of seven telcos has agreed plans to build a US$250m undersea cable to run from Southeast Asia to the US with Japan’s NEC as system supplier.
The 15,000km SEA-US project will link Manado in Indonesia with Hermosa Beach on the west coast of…
A consortium of seven telcos has agreed plans to build a US$250m undersea cable to run from Southeast Asia to the US with Japan’s NEC as system supplier.
The 15,000km SEA-US project will link Manado in Indonesia with Hermosa Beach on the west coast of the US, providing an additional 20tb/s in capacity once completed in Q4 2016.
The consortium comprises Indonesian incumbent Telkom’s Telin subsidiary and the latter’s Telkom USA unit, Philippine operator Globe Telecom, Hawaiian Telcom, US-based telcos RAM Telecom International and GTI Corporation, and Guam’s GTA.
Naoki Yoshida, general manager of the submarine division of NEC, a Japanese conglomerate, said: “The construction of this advanced system enables NEC to capitalise on its experience and contribute to worldwide communications by expanding connectivity and capacity to this increasingly important Trans-Pacific route.”
Google and five Asian communications firms recently announced a US$300m undersea cable project to link the US with Japan called FASTER, which has an initial design capacity of 60tb/s and aims to be ready by Q2 2016.
NEC is also the system supplier for that project, and the consortium includes China Mobile, China Telecom, Malaysia’s Global Transit, Japan’s KDDI and Singapore-based SingTel.
Arief Yahya, CEO of Indonesia’s Telkom, was recently cited saying it plans to work on a number of undersea cable projects with a total investment of up to US$1bn, which includes SEA-US.
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