NEC Corporation announced on Thursday, December 19, the completion of the Asia Direct Cable (ADC), a high-capacity submarine cable connecting China, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The ADC, owned by the ADC Consortium, features multiple pairs of optical fibers capable of carrying over 160 Tbps of data traffic, meeting the demand for communication infrastructure in the East and Southeast Asian regions.
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NEC Completes Asia Direct Cable
"The new cable represents a significant achievement as the latest Intra-Asia cable connecting China (Hong Kong SAR), Japan and Singapore in the past eight years, providing essential infrastructure to support the burgeoning traffic demand in the region and opening up new avenues for communication and society's future," NEC said.
ADC Consortium
The ADC is a global consortium comprised of communications and technology companies, including NT (Thailand), China Telecom, China Unicom, PLDT Inc, Singtel, SoftBank Corp, Tata Communications and Viettel.
"This new cable marks a significant milestone, providing a vital foundation to support the ever-growing communications needs of Asia and the world," said the Chairperson of the ADC Consortium.
"It offers the greatest cable capacity and essential diversity required for Asia's major information hubs, enabling telecom carriers and service providers to optimise their network and service planning for sustainable growth," added the Co-Chairperson of the ADC Consortium.
The project "will support increasingly bandwidth-intensive applications driven by technological advancements in 5G, the cloud, the Internet-of-Things and Artificial Intelligence," said the Senior Vice President of NEC Corporation.
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NEC Expertise
NEC has built more than 400,000 km of cable, spanning the Earth nearly 10 times. NEC provides all aspects of submarine cable operations, including the manufacture and installation of optical submarine cables and repeaters, provision of ocean surveys and route designs, training and delivery testing.
