- TPE (cable system)
TPE or Trans-Pacific Express is a submarine telecommunications cable linking
China ,South Korea ,Taiwan , andUSA . The line is a $500 million USD joint venture between 6 telecommunication companiesChina Telecom ,China Netcom ,China Unicom ,Chunghwa Telecom ,Korea Telecom , andVerizon Communications (AT&T and NTT joined in March 2008) [http://www.cedmagazine.com/ATT-NTT-join-TPE-Consortium.aspx] . [http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=15965 Trans-Pacific Express deal signed for US-China cable: CommsUpdate : TeleGeography Research ] ] Ownership of the cable is evenly split between the 6 participants. Construction of this 11,000 miles (approx. 17,700km) line was completed in September, 2008 [http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200809290229DOWJONESDJONLINE000038_FORTUNE5.htm|Verizon, KT, 4 Others Complete Rollout Of Trans-Pacific Cable] ] .While 5,547 gigabits per second of capacity is available across the
Atlantic Ocean , only 2,726 gigabits per second exists across thePacific Ocean . Most links to China have to go through a hub in Japan, Verizon Business says, and access tops out at 155 Mbit/s. [http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/121806-verizon-business.html Verizon Business building $500 million terabit cable to China - Network World ] ] TPE will be more than 60 times the overall capacity of the existing cable directly linking the U.S. and China, and thus it will be a major enhancement to the current cable systems between the two nations. [http://www.dailywireless.org/2006/12/18/new-china-transpacific-cable dailywireless.org » New China Transpacific Cable ] ] It will be the first next-generation undersea optical cable system directly linking the U.S. and China. [http://www.marketavenue.cn/upload/NEWS_27001.htm Trans-Pacific Express Approved To Land In U.S. - MarketAvenue ] ] It is also the first major undersea system to land on the U.S. West Coast in more than seven years. [http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/trans-pacific-express-submarine-cable-system-gets-fcc-approval Trans-Pacific Express submarine cable system gets FCC approval - Engadget ] ] Initially, the Trans-Pacific Express cable will be configured to handle traffic at 1.28 terabits per second (Tbit/s), but the system will have design capacity of up to 5.12 Tbit/s. Customers can also book individual connections running at 10 Gbit/s.Landing Points
The landing points of the cable are located in:
#Chongming , Shanghai Municipality, China
#Qingdao ,Shandong Province , China
#Tanshui,Taiwan Province , ROC
#Keoje, South Gyeongsang Province,South Korea
#Nedonna Beach ,Oregon , USAReferences
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