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5: Connections around the world

SYSTEM CAPACITY
•This cable consists of 4 fibre pairs with total of
80 Gbps transpacific system capacity with SDH
self-healing ring protection.

TECHNOLOGY
•Designed with 8x2.488 Gbps (STM16) SDH over
DWDM.

OWNERSHIP
•AT&T, CHINA TELECOM, SYSTEM COMMISSIONING AND UPGRADE
CHUNGHWA TELECOM, KDDI, KT,
NTT, PCCW, SINGTEL, SPRINT, TATA •In service January 2000.
COMMUNICATIONS, TELEKOM •Estimate end of service in 2025.
MALAYSIA, TELSTRA and VERIZON.

CABLE LENGTH
•1st direct cable route linking US-China LANDING STATIONS
and reach several Asia-Pacific regions.
•30, 800 Km.
•Northern transpacific (trunk between 1. Bandon, Oregon, United States.
Chongming cable landing station and 2. Chikura, Japan.
Bandon cable landing station). 3. Chong Ming, China.
• Southern transpacific (trunk between 4. Fangshan, Taiwan.
Shantou cable landing station and San 5. Okinawa, Japan.
Lius Obispo cable landing station). 6. Pusan, Rep. Korea.
•Western (trunks linking Shantou- 7. San Luis Obispo, Californa, United
Chongming) & eastern (Bandon-San States.
Lius Obispo, with branches to Japan, 8. Shantou, China.
Korea, Taiwan and Guam). 9. Tanguisson Point, Guam.

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