WCA May 2013

Editor ( 编辑 ): ............................................... David Bell Features Editor – USA ( 专栏编辑 – 美国 ): .............................. Dorothy Fabian Editorial Assistant ( 助理文字编辑 ): ............................... Christian Bradley Design/Production ( 设计/制作 ): ........... Julie Tomlin Production ( 制作 ): .................................... Lisa Wright Translation ( 翻译经理 ): .............................. Tony Zhou Jianye Yang Linda Li Advertising/Marketing : ......................... Jason Smith ( 广告/营销 ):

Speed a priority Speed, it seems, plays heavily on the mind when countries or continents are being connected by cables.

UK, ROW, USA, Canada Giuliana Benedetto Italy Hendrike Morriss Germany, Austria, Switzerland Linda Li 中国 Jeroo Norman India/Pakistan

In this issue of Wire & Cable ASIA there are three stories that make the headlines, all for very different reasons.

Firstly, there is the Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE), a high-bandwith optical submarine cable system that links Japan with the Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. This 7,800km long cable now connects the major cities in east and south-east Asia with a high capacity (40Gbps per wave) submarine cable system. You can find the full story on page 8. Whilst that no doubt provides the speed the giant telecoms companies of those countries needed, the opposite can be said of our second featured story, the ACE or Africa Coast to Europe submarine cable. After a multi-million dollar launch in December, it appears the cable is still not in operation in Gambia, with one cyber cafe user lamenting: “I have not seen any visible improvement.” That will change, according to a government official at the ministry of information. “The system being operational doesn’t mean it has started operation immediately in all member countries,” said Mr Lamin Camara. Turn to page 15 for the full story. After a seven-year delay a fibre optic cable has also gone live, linking China to Tajikistan. The full story is on page 19. • A final note is that wire Russia is now just around the corner – our coverage starts on page 68.

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