RTI and NEC Announce that the SEA-US Submarine Cable is Ready for Service and that the Marine Survey has Begun for a Hong Kon...
September 22 2017 - 2:08AM
JCN Newswire (English)
RAM Telecom International, Inc. (RTI) and NEC Corporation
(TSE:6701) announced today that the Southeast Asia - United States
Cable System (SEA-US) is ready for commercial service following
acceptance by the SEA-US consortium(1), and that construction has
commenced on the Hong Kong - Guam Cable System (HK-G)
extension.
The consortium's US $250 million investment in SEA-US delivers an
initial design capacity of 20 Terabits per second (Tbps) of
capacity, using NEC's state-of-the-art 100 Gigabit per second
(Gbps) submarine cable technology. SEA-US's capacity is essential
to facilitating exponentially growing demand for bandwidth between
Asia and North America. The new cable also greatly enables onward
connectivity to existing and planned submarine cable systems,
including the recently announced HK-G by RTI's affiliate, RTI
Connectivity Pte. Ltd. (RTI-C). NEC is the supplier for the HK-G
extension.
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SEA-US Cable Route and HK-G Extension
RTI-C and NEC also announced today that the marine route survey for
HK-G has begun. The detailed information that will be gathered
during the survey will shape the final route engineering that will
be undertaken. This is a significant development in the
construction of the 3,900-kilometer HK-G, which will land in Piti,
Guam at the recently completed Teleguam Holdings LLC (GTA) cable
landing station, the same facility which is being utilized for
SEA-US.
Russ Matulich, RTI's President and CEO, acknowledged this important
milestone stating, "Transpacific capacity demand will continue to
outweigh existing supply for many years to come, and RTI's SEA-US
investment is now providing essential route diversity capabilities
and onward connectivity options for our clients." Matulich added,
"Initiating the HK-G marine route survey is an important milestone
towards our goal of providing fully diverse transpacific
connectivity. Once completed, HK-G will seamlessly interconnect
with SEA-US, allowing customers to not only diversify their traffic
between Hong Kong to Los Angeles, but also enabling them to port
their existing capacity to different destinations."
Mr. Toru Kawauchi, General Manager of NEC's Submarine Network
Division said, "It is with deep pride that NEC, as one of the
world's top vendors of submarine cable systems, has handed over the
keys to launch the SEA-US Cable to RTI and the SEA-US consortium
members. From the day we signed the contract, we have dedicated our
best resources to completing this cable. There are plenty of
obstacles for every cable we build, and SEA-US was not immune to
this. By working together with the cable owners, we have overcome
each-and-every obstacle and look forward to many more years of
further enhancing our relationship in order to answer the global
demand for connectivity."
NEC has more than 40 years of experience in the submarine cable
business and is recognized as one of the world's top submarine
system vendors. NEC has laid a total of more than 250,000
kilometers of submarine cable, the equivalent of six trips around
the earth. As a total system integrator, NEC produces optical
submarine cable, optical submarine repeaters and equipment for
connecting optical transmissions to land, in addition to carrying
out ocean surveys, route design, laying optical submarine cable and
training personnel for the handover of these systems.
(1) The SEA-US consortium includes Globe Telecom (Manila,
Philippines), GTA (Tamuning, Guam), GTI (Los Angeles, California),
Hawaiian Telcom (Honolulu, Hawaii), RTI (San Francisco,
California), Telin (Jakarta, Indonesia), and Telin USA (Los
Angeles, California)
About RTI
RTI and its affiliates are leading neutral cable owners and develop
global telecom infrastructure and large-scale data connectivity in
selected markets. RTI offers its neutral products and services to
international telecommunications carriers, multinational
enterprises, global content providers and educational institutions.
RTI is headquartered in San Francisco, California and RTI-C is
headquartered in Singapore. For more information, visit
www.rticable.com.
About NEC Corporation
NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network
technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world.
By providing a combination of products and solutions that cross
utilize the company's experience and global resources, NEC's
advanced technologies meet the complex and ever-changing needs of
its customers. NEC brings more than 100 years of expertise in
technological innovation to empower people, businesses and society.
For more information, visit NEC at http://www.nec.com.
Based on its Mid-term Management Plan 2015, the NEC Group globally
provides "Solutions for Society" that promote the safety, security,
efficiency and equality of society. Under the company's corporate
message of "Orchestrating a brighter world," NEC aims to help solve
a wide range of challenging issues and to create new social value
for the changing world of tomorrow. For more information, please
visit
http://www.nec.com/en/global/about/solutionsforsociety/message.html.
Source: NEC Corporation
Contact:
NEC
Seiichiro Toda
s-toda@cj.jp.nec.com
+81-3-3798-6511
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