PEACE Cable Project Enters Cable and Material Manufacturing Phase
Published2018.10.29 17:32(Suzhou, China, October 29, 2018 PRNewswire=Yonhap News) PEACE Cable International Network Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of HENGTONG, announced today that its joint PEACE Cable project with Huawei Marine Networks Co., Ltd. has entered the cable and material manufacturing phase. The 12,000 km PEACE Cable system will connect Asia, Africa, and Europe and is scheduled to begin service in the first quarter of 2020.
The high-speed 200G PEACE Cable system, with 16 Tbps per fiber pair, is expected to provide the shortest path connecting China, Europe, and Africa upon completion, dramatically reducing latency and creating a new information superhighway for interconnection between the two regions. The system's open accessibility and carrier-neutral data centers are expected to have a significant impact on the countries connected to the cable system.
The cables used in this project were supplied by Hengtong Marine Cable Systems. Hengtong Marine Cable Systems' submarine cables have been applied globally through recent projects such as the FOA project in Chile, the PNG project in Papua New Guinea, the Avassa project in Comoros, the NaSCOM project in the Maldives, the Megacable project in Mexico, and the IGW project in Peru.
"We have established a new business model in the submarine cable industry," said Sun Xiaohua, COO of PEACE Cable. "This business model lays the groundwork for communication in these regions and provides connectivity opportunities to all companies along the route through branch investments and efficient trunk bandwidth expansion."
PEACE Cable Project
The PEACE Cable project is a private cable system spanning 12,000 km that provides open, flexible, and carrier-neutral services to customers.
The design of this system is planned to adopt the latest 200G technology and WSS technology. WSS technology provides a transmission capacity of over 16 Tbit/s per fiber pair and meets increasing regional capacity demands.
This network is expected to provide cost-effective and diverse paths to meet increasing capacity demands in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Its topological layout adopts shortest-path direct connectivity and enhances path diversity, which is expected to significantly reduce network latency.
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