New data backbone links East Asia
The new 7,800 kilometer data connection Asia Submarine-Cable Express (ASE) has been opened for Internet traffic on August 11 in an aim to boost the speed of data being transferred across ASEAN and other East Asian metropolises.
The $400 million project has been carried out by a consortium of major telecom companies in the region, NTTCom of Japan, StarHub of Singapore, TM of Malaysia and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, and was supplied by NEC Corp and Fujitsu.
The new cable delivers data via an optical fiber system at 40 gigabits per second and is three milliseconds faster than any other existing cable connection between Singapore with Tokyo. It is also connected directly to the Serangoon Data Center in Singapore, the city state’s main data landing hub, and later will also connect to the Hong Kong Financial Data Center. A speed of 40 gigabits per second means that an average HD DVD can be downloaded in 1.8 seconds. The cable can be upgraded to 100 gigabits per second, the operator said.
The ASE cable will not only provide better connectivity for general data transfer in the region, it will also speed up computer trading in particular for those brokers who use high-frequency trading programmes at the stock exchanges in Tokyo, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, where investment decision are made in milliseconds and where data connectivity decides about success or failure of a trade.
[caption id="attachment_4242" align="alignleft" width="300"] A ship laying a submarine cable in the South China Sea[/caption] The new 7,800 kilometer data connection Asia Submarine-Cable Express (ASE) has been opened for Internet traffic on August 11 in an aim to boost the speed of data being transferred across ASEAN and other East Asian metropolises. The $400 million project has been carried out by a consortium of major telecom companies in the region, NTTCom of Japan, StarHub of Singapore, TM of Malaysia and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, and was supplied by NEC Corp and Fujitsu. The cable currently has landing points in Japan,...
The new 7,800 kilometer data connection Asia Submarine-Cable Express (ASE) has been opened for Internet traffic on August 11 in an aim to boost the speed of data being transferred across ASEAN and other East Asian metropolises.
The $400 million project has been carried out by a consortium of major telecom companies in the region, NTTCom of Japan, StarHub of Singapore, TM of Malaysia and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, and was supplied by NEC Corp and Fujitsu.
The new cable delivers data via an optical fiber system at 40 gigabits per second and is three milliseconds faster than any other existing cable connection between Singapore with Tokyo. It is also connected directly to the Serangoon Data Center in Singapore, the city state’s main data landing hub, and later will also connect to the Hong Kong Financial Data Center. A speed of 40 gigabits per second means that an average HD DVD can be downloaded in 1.8 seconds. The cable can be upgraded to 100 gigabits per second, the operator said.
The ASE cable will not only provide better connectivity for general data transfer in the region, it will also speed up computer trading in particular for those brokers who use high-frequency trading programmes at the stock exchanges in Tokyo, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, where investment decision are made in milliseconds and where data connectivity decides about success or failure of a trade.
