NEC Corporation has finished the construction of the 10,000 kilometers Asia Direct Cable connecting China (Hong Kong SAR and Guangdong Province), Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. It is designed to carry more than 160 Tbps of traffic, enabling high-capacity transmission of data across the East and Southeast Asian regions.
Dec 19, 2024
NEC Corporation has announced it has finished construction of the Asia Direct Cable (ADC), a high-performance submarine cable connecting China (Hong Kong SAR and Guangdong Province), Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
The ADC submarine cable is owned by the ADC Consortium. It features multiple pairs of high-capacity optical fibers, and designed to carry more than 160 Tbps of traffic, enabling high-capacity transmission of data across the East and Southeast Asian regions.
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The new cable represents a significant achievement as the latest Intra-Asia cable connecting China, Japan and Singapore in the past eight years, providing essential infrastructure to support the traffic demand in the region and opening up new avenues for communication and society’s future.
Talking about the new cable system, Koji Ishii, MC Chairperson of the ADC Consortium, said, “This new cable marks a significant milestone, providing a vital foundation to support the ever-growing communications needs of Asia and the world. The milestone represents the culmination of our efforts to overcome numerous challenges, made possible through steadfast collaboration and partnerships with esteemed stakeholders from various countries, including NEC. We are confident that this cable system will significantly contribute to the development of the AI industry in the Asia region.”
Tomonori Uematsu, Senior Vice President with NEC Corporation, said, ‘‘NEC is honoured to have taken part in this prestigious project, which will support increasingly bandwidth-intensive applications driven by technological advancements in 5G, the cloud, the Internet-of-Things and Artificial Intelligence. We thank the consortium for their partnership and for helping us to push the boundaries of numerous challenges to bring this project to fruition.’’
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NEC has been a leading supplier of submarine cable systems for more than 60 years, and has built more than 400,000 km of cable, spanning the earth nearly 10 times. It is a well-established, reliable partner in the submarine cable field as a system integrator that provides all aspects of submarine cable operations, including the manufacture and installation of optical submarine cables and repeaters, provision of ocean surveys and route designs, training and delivery testing. NEC’s subsidiary OCC Corporation manufactures optical submarine cables capable of withstanding water pressures at ocean depths beyond 8,000 meters.
