A new undersea cable with a bandwidth of 126 Tbps, the highest of any serving Vietnam currently, is set to become operational next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) said it is collaborating with China Mobile International, Singapore’s Singtel, Indonesia’s Telin, Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom and South Korea\u2019s SK Broadband to lay the Southeast Asia Japan 2 cable (SJC2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Costing US$439 million, the cable will also serve mainland China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Vietnam, the point of connection would be in Quy Nhon Town in the south-central province of Binh Dinh, American business technology news website ZDNet<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SJC2 will be the sixth international marine cable to serve Vietnam in which VNPT has a stake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Military-run Viettel has said it has tied up with Singapore\u2019s Singtel, China Telecom, Japan\u2019s SoftBank and India\u2019s Tata Communications to install a 9,400km submarine cable that would serve Vietnam. The 140 Tbps cable is expected to be laid by the end of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vietnam, where more than 64% of the population are online, is connected to six undersea cables and a 120 gigabit overland cable from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Asia Pacific Gateway undersea cable, the one with the highest bandwidth (54 Tbps) currently, has suffered frequent disruptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new undersea cable with a bandwidth of 126 Tbps, the highest of any serving Vietnam currently, is set to become operational next year. The Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) said it is collaborating with China Mobile International, Singapore’s Singtel, Indonesia’s Telin, Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom and South Korea\u2019s SK Broadband to lay the Southeast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,59,42,44],"tags":[439,442,440,443,441,437,438],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cabling","category-south-east-asia","category-industry-verticals-telecom","category-top-stories","tag-china-mobile-international","tag-chunghwa-telecom","tag-singapore-singtel","tag-sk-broadband","tag-telin","tag-vietnam","tag-vietnam-posts-and-telecommunications-group"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}