Asia-America Gateway

Asia-America Gateway
Total length20,000-kilometre (12,000 mi)
Date of first use10 November 2009; 15 years ago (2009-11-10)

The Asia-America Gateway (AAG) is a 20,000-kilometre (12,000 mi) long submarine communications cable system, connecting South-East Asia with the mainland of the United States, across the Pacific Ocean via Guam and Hawaii.[1][2]

The cable is capable of delivering up to 2.88 Tbit/s (US-Hawaii & Hong Kong-South East Asia) and 1.92 Tbit/s (Hawaii-Hong Kong). The cable was ready for service on November 10, 2009.[3]

Development of the AAG cable system was funded, at a cost of $500 million USD,[2] by 19 partners: AT&T (United States), BayanTel (Philippines), Bharti (India), BT Global Network Services (UK), CAT Telecom (Thailand), ETPI (Philippines), FPT Telecom (Vietnam), Authority for Info-Communications Technology Industry (Brunei Darussalam), Indosat (Indonesia), PLDT (Philippines), Saigon Postal Corporation (Vietnam), StarHub (Singapore), Ezecom/Telcotech (Cambodia), Telkom Indonesia (Indonesia), Telstra (Australia), Telekom Malaysia (Malaysia), Telecom New Zealand (New Zealand), Viettel (Vietnam), and the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group. The cable has landing points at the United States, Hawaii, Guam, Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei and Vietnam.[1][4][5]

  1. ^ a b "Asia-America Gateway". www.asia-america-gateway.com. 2008. Archived from the original on January 5, 2010. Retrieved December 24, 2009.
  2. ^ a b "Faster Starhub broadband" (Press release). www.straitstimes.com. December 8, 2009. Archived from the original on December 12, 2009. Retrieved December 24, 2009.
  3. ^ "AAG Submarine Cable System". Submarine Cable Networks. June 20, 2011. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  4. ^ "Asia America Gateway (AAG)" (PDF). www.telstrainternational.co.uk. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 22, 2009. Retrieved December 24, 2009.
  5. ^ "Consortium to Develop Proposal for Asia – America Gateway Cable System" (PDF). REACH. June 1, 2006. Retrieved December 24, 2008.