(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecommunications provider Verizon Business (www.verizonbusiness.com) announced on Thursday it has completed the latest Trans-Pacific Express submarine cable landing in Shin Maruyama, Japan.
The addition of the cable will result in increased network capacity and additional diversity for its enterprise customers’ IP, data and voice communications needs.
The new cable landing marks the sixth TPE submarine cable landing site on the more than 11,000 mile-network system, which connects Japan to South Korea, Taiwan, Mainland China and the US Verizon is the landing party for the US.
First announced in December 2006 by the six founding TPE Consortium members – Verizon Business, China Telecom, China Netcom, China Unicom, Korea Telecom and Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan — the TPE cable uses optical technology to provide greater capacity at high speeds to meet the increase in demand for IP, data and voice communications in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific countries.
The first phase of the 5.12TB fiber-optic cable system was ready for service in September 2008.
NTT Communications joined the TPE Consortium as the next cable-landing party member, establishing the new link from Asia to Japan to complete the next phase
“We knew this TPE cable network would be important to the communications industry and all companies expanding in the northern Asia region,” says Ihab Tarazi, Verizon vice president for global network planning. “As we place live production traffic on this new route, our Verizon Business customers with locations in Japan benefit from the direct connectivity to mainland China, Taiwan and South Korea.”
Connecting TPE to Japan has enhanced Verizon Business’ service availability through added redundancy and increased capacity in support of global voice, private IP and public IP services, as well as point-to-point customer requirements.
Verizon Business also has fiber connections to customers in major cities such as Tokyo and Osaka. This Japan extension of the TPE system adds more diversity and capacity to the company’s Asia-Pacific meshed network that connects the US to Japan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and India.
This new link will enhance Verizon Business capabilities to reroute Asia-Pacific network traffic in the event of a major event, like an earthquake or typhoon, which could damage multiple undersea cables.
In September, Verizon Business announced that the global mesh network automatically rerouted restorable customer traffic to provide additional network paths, after submarine cables damaged by Typhoon Morakot and earthquakes off the coast of Taiwan.
Verizon Business was the first service provider to deploy seven-way diversity across the Pacific.
