HONG KONG, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — A consortium of telecommunication corporations has signed agreements to make investments about $300 million for a submarine cable system in Southeast Asia that goals to enhance information capability within the area and improve native capacities.
The group consists of China Telecom Global Limited (CTG) of China, Globe Telecom, Inc. (Globe) and DITO Telecommunity Corporation (DITO) of the Philippines, Singapore Telecommunications Limited (Singtel) of Singapore, and Unified National Networks Sdn Bhd (UNN) of Brunei Darussalam.
The deliberate Asia Link Cable (ALC) might be roughly 6,000-kilometer in size, connecting Hong Kong SAR, China and Singapore as its trunk, with branches into the Philippines, Brunei Darussalam and Hainan, China. HMN Technologies Co., Limited (HMN Tech) was awarded because the system provider and is predicted to full the development of ALC by the third quarter of 2025.
ALC is seen to present extra hyper-capacity inside Asia and enhance resiliency for worldwide site visitors. It can have a minimal eight fiber pairs within the system, with 18 Tbps/Fiber Pair minimal trunk design capability, including extra capability and range to present networks within the area.
Executive Vice President of CTG, Mr. Wu Xiaolei acknowledged, “In the Digitalisation Era, Asia Link Cable (ALC) is critical for connecting and creating value for our customers, especially in Asia. We are aiming to achieve a more sustainable environment and community as well as enhancing the efficiency in our communication processes, by building strong and reliable undersea cables around the world. CTG takes pride in playing an essential role in developing and promoting cloud and network integration. We welcome different service providers or industry partners in this endeavor, in the hopes that we can better serve our customers. With this cable, CTG will provide greater value to this community of partners, service providers, and customers, and achieve success together.”
ALC Co-Chair Mr Chang Weiguo (CTG) identified, “ALC is a great accomplishment of Asian carriers which overcame difficulties of Covid impacts, and it is also the only subsea project with zero-face-to-face meetings from the MoU to the C&MA signing in the industry. ALC consortium adopts an open and inclusive principle and will attract more investors in the near future to make it more cost effective, which will reinforce the resilience of interconnectivity in Asia and better serve digital economy in the region.”
ALC Co-Chair, Mr Alan Tan (Singtel) mentioned, “We started planning and designing the ALC cable more than two years ago at the onset of the pandemic, having anticipated the inevitable growth in high-definition content consumption, trade and innovation in this region. Despite the challenges presented by safe management restrictions, we managed to come up with a system that will help meet the evolving needs of consumers and enterprises and boost local economies today and in the near future.”
CEO of HMN Tech, Mr. Mao Shengjiang commented, “It is a great honor for HMN Tech to team up with the global leading telecom operators to provide innovative turnkey subsea cable solution for the ALC System. This new cable system will provide new impetus for the ALC consortium to establish digital and intelligent networks in Asia and around the world.”
An open cable system structure is adopted for ALC, enabling Parties to choose and keep impartial line terminal tools that will swimsuit their buyer requirement.
With strategic places and bullish digital progress prospects in thoughts, there was an elevated curiosity to interconnect within the trans-Asian area, enriching the infrastructures for potential prospects. This subsea cable system will assist improve the present services in catering future necessities within the area.
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