Vietnam to be linked by 126 Tbps pan-Asian
submarine cable
NEWS
new undersea cable with
A a bandwidth of 126 Tbps,
the highest of any serving
Vietnam currently, is set to become
operational next year. The Vietnam
Posts and Telecommunications Group
(VNPT) said it is collaborating with
China Mobile International, Singapore’s
Singtel, Indonesia’s Telin, Taiwan’s
Chunghwa Telecom and South Korea’s
SK Broadband to lay the Southeast Asia
Japan 2 cable (SJC2). Costing US$439
million, the cable will also serve mainland
China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea,
Taiwan and Thailand.
In Vietnam, the point of connection would
be in Quy Nhon Town in the south-central
province of Binh Dinh, American business
technology news website, ZDNet, reported.
SJC2 will be the sixth international marine
cable to serve Vietnam in which VNPT
has a stake.
Military-run Viettel has said it has tied
up with Singapore’s Singtel, China
Telecom, Japan’s SoftBank and India’s
Tata Communications to install a 9,400km
submarine cable that would serve
Vietnam. The 140 Tbps cable is expected
to be laid by the end of 2022.
Vietnam, where more than 64% of the
population are online, is connected to
six undersea cables and a 120 gigabit
overland cable from China.
The Asia Pacific Gateway undersea
cable, the one with the highest
bandwidth (54 Tbps) currently, has
suffered frequent disruptions.
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