Eight of Asia’s largest carriers plan to jointly build a fiber optic cable that will interconnect the region’s most important economies. This network will facilitate interconnection to the trans-Pacific cables to North America and the similar cables connecting to Europe,
The Asia-Pacific Gateway (AGP) cable will run about 5,000 miles from South Korea to Malaysia. Spurs will directly connect China, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore into the cable, which will initially have a bandwidth of 4 terabits per second.
The carriers said they were building the cable to satisfy anticipated demand for intra-regional capacity as trade and commerce grows in the region. The cable will also serve as a back-up to existing lines.
