Telekom Malaysia Bhd is teaming up with eight telecommunication companies to develop a proposal to build an 8,000km international undersea cable system, named Asia Pacific Gateway (APG).
The APG would link Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Taiwan, China, Japan and South Korea The cable system will span 8,000km and will use the latest dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technologies with a minimum design capacity of four terabit/second. It is expected to be ready for service by end of 2011.
The APG consortium was formalised with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) and represented by leaders of the region’s key telcos.
The eight-member consortium consists of China Telecom and China Unicom (China), Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan), KT Corporation (Korea), NTT Communications (Japan), PLDT (Philippines), VNPT (Vietnam) and TM (Malaysia).
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