APCN
{{short description|Submarine telecommunications cable system linking nine Asian countries}}
{{no footnotes|date=August 2009}}
APCN or Asia-Pacific Cable Network is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking nine Asian countries.
It has landing points in:
- Petchaburi, Thailand
- Mersing, Malaysia
- Changi, Singapore
- Ancol, Indonesia
- Lantau, Hong Kong
- Batangas, Philippines
- Toucheng, Taiwan
- Busan, Korea
- Miyazaki, Japan
It has a transmission capacity of 5 Gbit/s, and a total cable length of approximately 12,000 km. It started operations in 1997.
See also
Sources
- {{cite web
| title=www.apricot.net/apricot97/apII/Presentations/KDDSubmarineFiber/sld018.htm
| url=http://www.apricot.net/apricot97/apII/Presentations/KDDSubmarineFiber/sld018.htm
| accessdate=February 11, 2006
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- {{cite web
| title=www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0103/0801-02.html
| url=http://www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0103/0801-02.html
| accessdate=February 11, 2006
}}
- {{cite web
| title=www.atlantic-cable.com/Cables/CableTimeLine/index1951.htm
| url=http://www.atlantic-cable.com/Cables/CableTimeLine/index1951.htm
| accessdate=December 26, 2008
| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20081208122203/http://www.atlantic-cable.com/Cables/CableTimeLine/index1951.htm| archivedate= 8 December 2008 | url-status= live}}
{{Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean}}
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