The government recently announced its plan to roll out the ultra high speed network with speeds ranging from 10MBps and up to 1GBps(100 times faster that 10MBps). However details on where and when will the plan to start commencing was not announced.
Govt rolls out advanced national communications infrastructure
PUTRAJAYA: The government has rolled out an advanced national communications infrastructure by wiring up 1.2 million households and business premises with fibre-optics and enabling all internet subscribers to receive a fast speed of between 10 MBPs (Megabytes per second) to 1 GBPs (Gigabytes per second). – Source 8
In the meantime the submarine cable network to the US is now completed and ready to be activated. The underwater cable network is the first of its kind to connect countries in the south east Asia directly to the United States.
With speeds up to 2 TBps (2000 times faster than 1GBps) the submarine cable would be able to produce seamless connection to US with very low latency. The new cable lies on a low risk route from national disasters such as earthquake that had previously damaged the submarine cables that we are currently using now. For the record we are using the same submarine cables interconnecting Japan, Taiwan and Korea to the United States.
Hopefully the networks will be activated soon and the implementation of the ultra high speed internet will happen in this not so distant future.
Submarine cable network to US completed
The 20,000km submarine cable network providing a direct connection between South East Asia and the United States, is ready to be activated.
It will start carrying commercial traffic as Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM), together with the consortium of Asia America Gateway (AAG) submarine cable network, has completed the comprehensive test requirement.
The AAG is designed to provide a capacity of up to two Terabits per second of data bandwidth.
It is also the first high-bandwidth optical-fibre submarine cable system to directly link South East Asia and the US.
The cable system connects 10 locations in eight countries across the Asia Pacific Region and the United States, namely Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, Hong Kong and the Philippines while landing in Guam, Hawaii and California, said TM in a statement here today.
The AAG also provides seamless interconnection for the above mentioned countries to other regions like Europe, Australia, Africa and other parts of Asia.
“This commercial rollout of AAG marks another milestone for TM in providing reliable, lower latency international connectivity to its global clients from around the world,” said TM’s executive vice president, Global Mohamad Rozaimy Abdul Rahman.
He said besides providing additional bandwidth capacity, the AAG submarine cable system is intended to become an alternative and a more secure link for traffic from the region to the US.
“This low risk route was designed to avoid the volatile and hazardous Pacific Ring, thus mitigating the effects from natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis, which have previously damaged submarine cable systems, resulting in major disruptions to international internet links,” he explained.
With an initial equipped capacity of 500 Gigabits per second, the submarine cable network is upgradeable using field tested Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology, which enables it to provide upgradeable future transmission facilities that support internet and e-commerce traffic.
The cable network complements existing cable systems such as the Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN 2) and Japan-US Cable Network currently connecting to North America via North Asia. — BERNAMA Source