EAC-C2C is a submarine telecommunications cable system interconnecting several countries in Asia, the Pacific, and the United States. It is a merger of the former EAC (East Asia Crossing) and C2C cable systems. The merger occurred in 2007 by Asia Netcom, and the cable system is now owned/operated by Pacnet. Pacnet was acquired by the Australian telecommunications company Telstra in 2015.
The EAC portion of the cable system includes:
Landing points:
Changi, Singapore Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong Qingdao, China (later extension) Bali, Taiwan Capepisa, The Philippines Taean, South Korea Shima, Japan Ajigaura, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Japan
Length: 19,500 kilometers
Capacity: 160 Gbit/s - upgradeable to 2.5 Tbit/s
Technology: DWDM (dense wavelength-division multiplex)
The C2C portion of the cable system comprises three rings:
C2C North Ring C2C South Ring
The landing points on each ring are as follows:
C2C North Ring
Chung Hom Kok, Southern District, Hong Kong Nasugbu, Batangas Province, Philippines Fangshan, Pingtung County, Taiwan Danshui District, New Taipei City, Taiwan Nanhui District, Shanghai, China Pusan, South Korea Shima, Mie Prefecture, Japan Chikura, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
C2C South Ring
Hong Kong Nasugbu, Batangas Province, Philippines Vung Tau, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, Vietnam Changi, Singapore
EAC-C2C Merger In 2007, Asia Netcom (now Pacnet) merged the EAC cable system and the C2C cable system into a single EAC-C2C cable system, spanning 36,800 kilometers between Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Singapore, connecting 17 cable landing stations. EAC-C2C cable system becomes the most resilient submarine network in Asia region.
References
External links Pacnet Map of EAC nec.com