VSNL Announces Construction of its $200M TGN-Intra Asia Cable System
(Business News, 02 Nov 2007 )
VSNL is proceeding with the construction of the TGN-Intra Asia cable system, which will be constructed by Tyco Telecommunications (US) Inc. The TGN-Intra Asia submarine cable is a new four-fiber pair cable system linking Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan, with an additional connection to the Philippines, and potentially Vietnam. This cable will provide up to 3.8Tbps of capacity to the rapidly growing Asia-Pacific market, allowing VSNL's global customers doing business in and with the region to obtain additional bandwidth, increased route diversity and extended geographical reach.
The TGN-Intra Asia cable, when combined with the Tata Indicom Cable System (TIC) and the TGN-Pacific cable system (both of which are capable of supporting 7+ Tbit/s of traffic), will complete VSNLs multi-Terabit capability from India to Asia and onward to the US. The cable will provide a direct connection from Singapore to VSNLs Transpacific Network in Japan, avoiding any other landing points and connecting to the TGN-Pacific cable system directly at the landing station. With Globe Telecom as the exclusive cable landing party in the Philippines, the Philippines will also be linked to Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore with onward connectivity to Guam and the US.
"This is the first and only cable system that provides a direct fiber link between Singapore and Japan," said Vinod Kumar, President, Global Data Solutions, VSNL. "The cables direct connection to the TGN-Pacific cable system enables the most cost effective, highly resilient connections from Asia to the US West Coast and Guam. This extensive infrastructure build out, which is already underway, will serve the increased and rapidly growing demand for bandwidth in the region and provide our customers with unparalleled high performance bandwidth capabilities and increased options for route diversity and redundancy."
