NTT Com Joins New Submarine Cable Consortium

NTT Communications has signed a construction and maintenance agreement to participate in a consortium building a new optical fiber cable system, the Trans Pacific Express Cable Network, which will link Japan, Mainland China, South Korea, Taiwan and the US.

Trans Pacific Express Cable Network (TPE), is a new submarine cable network that is being built jointly by a consortium that now consists of NTT Communications (NTT Com), AT&T, China Netcom, China Telecom, China Unicom, Chungwha Telecom, KT and Verizon Business. The cable network will be more than 18,000 kilometers in length and have a maximum transmission capacity of 5.12 terabits per second.

NTT Com will establish and fully manage a new landing station in Japan at a site located near the Tokyo metropolitan area. The landing station will provide connectivity to other major submarine cables in the region.