WCA May 2013

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