 "VSNL To Construct $200 Million TGN-Intra Asia Cable System")
VSNL is proceeding with the construction of the TGN-Intra Asia cable system, which will be constructed by Tyco Telecommunications (US). The TGN-Intra Asia submarine cable is a new 4 fibre 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 3.8 Tbit/s 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, will complete VSNL’s multi-Terabit capability from India to Asia and onward to the US. The cable will provide a direct connection from Singapore to VSNL’s Transpacific Network in Japan; avoiding any other landing points and connecting to the TGN-Pacific cable system directly at the landing station.
“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. “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.”
The Intra-Asia cable will also support VSNL’s IP transit and dedicated Global Ethernet services. VSNL is currently evaluating plans to develop future extensions of the cable system into Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan and China, and has obtained commitments for other investment partnerships that will be announced in the near future. The TGN-Intra Asia cable is currently under construction and on schedule to be completed by June 2008.
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