NEC Corporation chosen to provide cable for major Asian submarine cable project

摘要

NEC Corporation announced that it has been chosen by the Asia Direct Cable (ADC) Consortium as a supplier for a high-performance submarine cable connecting China (Hong Kong SAR and Guangdong Province), Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. A press release said that NEC will construct the 9,400-km ADC cable, which is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2022. The cable will feature multiple pairs of high capacity optical fibers and is designed to carry more than 140 Tbps of traffic, enabling high capacity transmission of data across the East and Southeast Asian regions. ADC's high capacity allows it to support increasingly bandwidth-intensive applications which are driven by technological advancements in 5G, the cloud, the Internet-of-Things and Artificial Intelligence. This will further enhance the expansion of communications networks in the region.